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. 2017 Apr 19;10(2):120–125. doi: 10.14740/gr826w

Table 3. The Basic Characteristics of the Individuals With Upper Gastrointestinal Malignancies.

Upper GI malignancies
Esophageal cancers (n = 14, 17.1%) Upper gastric cancers (n = 12, 14.6%) Lower gastric cancers (n = 52, 63.4%) Duodenal cancers (n = 4, 4.9%) Total (n = 82) P-value
Age (years) 63.14 ± 13.92 67.83 ± 13.89 63.19 ± 13.37 77.50 ± 5.20 0.122a
Gender
  Male 12 (85.7%) 10 (17.2%) 32 (61.5%) 4 (100%) 58 (70.7%) 0.102b
  Female 2 (8.3%) 2 (8.3%) 20 (38.5%) 0 24 (29.3%)
H. pylori infection
  Positive 0 0# 12 (23.1%)# 0 12 (17.1%) 0.171b
  Excluded numbers 12 0 0 0
Alarm features
  GI bleeding 1 (7.1%) 0 19 (36.5%) 0 18 0.008b
  Body weight loss 7 (50.0%) 6 (50.0%) 8 (15.4%) 2 (50.0%) 22 0.010b
  Dysphagia 7 (50.0%) 6 (50.0%) 0 0 10 0.001b
  At least one alarm feature 12 (85.7%) 10 (83.3%) 26 (50.0%) 2 (50.0%) 32 0.063b

aKruskal-Wallis one-way ANOVA test. bPearson’s Chi-square test. Upper gastric cancers is defined as cancers in the cardia, fundus or upper corpus; lower gastric cancers is defined as cancers in antrum or angularis. #P = 0.062 analyzed by Fisher’s exact test. Six patients had more than one alarm features.