Discussion In recent years we have observed a worrying trend of increased occurrence of OSCC in young Zambian adults.
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HIV infection and domestic smoke exposure, but not human papillomavirus, are risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Zambia: a case-control study.
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Initial analysis showed that the association of OSCC with HIV infection was very close to being significant, which suggested that the sample size was too small to show an effect.
We found a highly significant association between cigarette smoking and OSCC.
Our initial analysis of 50 cases and 50 controls suggested an effect of borderline significance on multivariate analysis and in younger adults.