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Cancer of the esophagus accounts for about 2% of all malignant tumors. It is a common cancer in some regions of northern China, as well as the belt that stretches from European Russia, north and east of the Caspian, Turkey, and Iran into central Asia. It is also common among black populations in Southeast Africa. Intermediate rates are found amoung blacks in the United States [range of age-adjusted incidence rates (AAIR) 12–24 per 100,000], some regions of France (range of AAIR 10–36 per 100,000), and Switzerland (range of AAIR 3–10 per 100,000), and some areas of Latin America (range of AAIR for Brazil 13–26 per 100,000) and Japan (AAIR 6–14 per 100,000).
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Sherman, C.D. (1982). Cancer of the Gastrointestinal Tract. In: Sherman, C.D., Hossfeld, D.K., Love, R.R., Bosch, F.X. (eds) Manual of Clinical Oncology. UICC International Union Against Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97267-6_24
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