Table 2 . Occurrence of each diagnostic criteria for mid esophagitis among cancerous and non-cancerous endoscopy clinic patients.

	Non cancer patients (n=39)	Cancer patients (n=47)	Suspicious for malignancy (n=12)
Regenerative changes	3 (7.7)	1 (2.1)	0 (0)
Epithelial inflammation	16 (43.6)	19 (40.4)	6 (50.0)
Lamina propria inflammation	19 (48.7)	27 (57.5)	6 (50.0)