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Demographics characters of patients
| Median age (range) years | 54 (32–77) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 120 (57 %) |
| Female | 90 (43 %) |
| Presenting symptoms | |
| Dysphagia | 200 (95 %) |
| Vomiting | 50 (24 %) |
| Cough | 15 (7 %) |
| Pathology | |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 167 (79.5 %) |
| Adenocarcinoma | 31 (15 %) |
| Poorly differentiated carcinoma | 12 (5.5 %) |
| Tumor location | |
| Middle third | 101 (48 %) |
| Lower third | 119 (52 %) |
