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Table 3 Mean age of patients in relation to sex, type of cancer and presence of schistosomal eggs

From: Schistosomiasis and urinary bladder cancer in North Western Tanzania: a retrospective review of 185 patients

  

95% CI

P -value

Sex

No (Mean age)

  

Male

   

 Schistosomal eggs present

34 (49.6)

44.40–54.77

 

 No schistosomal eggs

56 (60.8)

32.59–64.32

< 0.001

Female

   

 Schistosomal eggs present

49 (45.2)

41.36–49.08

 

 No schistosomal eggs

46 (59.7)

55.25–64.18

< 0.001

Male

No (Mean age)

  

 Non squamous cancer

43 (59.8)

56.45–63.13

 

 Squamous cancer

47 (53.6)

48.60–58.67

0.0473

Female

   

 Non squamous cancer

40 (62.4)

58.45–67.35

 

 Squamous cancer

55 (44.2)

41.09–47.82

< 0.001

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