Diagnostic history of patients with oesophageal cancer from February 2019 to August 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Variable | Frequency | Per cent |
Stage at first diagnosis | ||
I | 20 | 6.0 |
II | 58 | 17.2 |
III | 167 | 49.4 |
IV | 76 | 22.4 |
Unknown | 17 | 5.0 |
Histological subtype | ||
Oesophageal squamous carcinoma | 290 | 85.8 |
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma | 45 | 13.3 |
Unknown | 3 | 0.9 |
Histopathological differentiation | ||
Well-differentiated | 202 | 59.8 |
Moderately differentiated | 47 | 13.8 |
Poorly differentiated | 30 | 8.9 |
Undifferentiated | 6 | 1.8 |
Unspecified | 53 | 15.7 |
Morphology of tumour during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy | ||
Ulcerative | 167 | 49.4 |
Obliterative | 118 | 34.9 |
Proliferative | 45 | 13.3 |
Ulceroproliferative | 8 | 2.4 |
Tumour location (histology) | ||
Upper (cervical) | 95 | 28.1 |
Middle oesophagus | 139 | 41.1 |
Lower oesophagus | 104 | 30.8 |