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“…Ramin Saadaat,1 Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar,1 Ahmed Maseh Haidary,1 Nooria Atta,2 Tazeen Saeed Ali3 1Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan; 2Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kabul University of Medical Science (KUMS), Kabul, Afghanistan; 3School of Nursing and Midwifery and Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi, PakistanCorrespondence: Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar, Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan, Tel +93 792 827287, Email jamshid.jalal@fmic.org.afPurpose: Esophageal cancer (EC) is the most common cancer among males in Afghanistan, thus we aimed to conduct a case-control study to determine the associated risk factors with EC in two tertiary care hospitals of Kabul, Afghanistan.Patients and Methods: We enrolled 132 EC cases and 132 controls and used conditional logistic regression to estimate the odds ratio (OR) with consideration of 95% confidence interval (CI).Results: The results of our study revealed that esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) was the predominant type of EC constituting 75.8% of the cases. …”
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