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Between 1957 and 1981, 6398 patients were registered with oesophageal tumours of all histological types, excluding only three primary lymphomas of the oesophagus which are considered separately in Chapter 7; this is to conform to the ICD definition of rubric 150.
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Matthews, H.R., Waterhouse, J.A.H., Powell, J., Robertson, J.E., McConkey, C.C. (1987). Epidemiology: Demographic Aspects. In: Cancer of the Oesophagus. Clinical Cancer Monographs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09074-7_2
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