Racial Differences in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Incidence and Molecular Features

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of TCGA ESCC patients in different racial groups.

	Whites	Asians	value
Years to birth			0.10
Mean	60.9	56
Range	(44, 90)	(36, 77)
Neoplasm disease stage
Stage i	7 (17%)	0
Stage ii	17 (40%)	34 (76%)
Stage iii	16 (38%)	10 (22%)
Stage iv	2 (5%)	1 (2%)
Pathology of T stage
T1	6 (14%)	0
T2	8 (19%)	21 (47%)
T3	25 (60%)	24 (53%)
T4	3 (7%)	0
Pathology of N stage			0.63
N0	24 (57%)	29 (64%)
N1	13 (31%)	12 (27%)
N2	3 (7%)	3 (7%)
N3	2 (5%)	0
Pathology of M stage			0.59
M0	35 (83%)	44 (98%)
M1	2 (5%)	1 (2%)
Gender
Male	31 (74%)	42 (93%)
Female	11 (26%)	3 (7%)
Number of pack-years			0.099
Mean	30	21
Range	(0, 102)	(0, 50)

value is obtained by performing Fisher’s exact test between Whites and Asians.
Significant difference ( value < 0.05).