Epidemiologic characteristics of oral cancer: single-center analysis of 4097 patients from the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center

Table 1 Residential and hospital admission characteristics of 4097 oral cancer patients in South China by sex

Variate	Total	Male	Female	M:F ratio	P
Period of hospital admission	4097	2729	1368	1.99	<0.05
1960–1973	432	293	139	2.11
1974–1983	500	344	156	2.21
1984–1993	803	549	254	2.16
1994–2003	959	635	324	1.96
2004–2013	1403	908	495	1.83
Subcultural area^a	3630	2418	1212	2.00	<0.05
Guangfu (Cantonese)	2470	1602	868	1.85
Hakka	488	315	173	1.82
Chaoshan	481	340	141	2.41
Unknown	191	161	30	5.37
Economic region^b	3661	2427	1234	1.97	<0.05
Pearl river delta region	2479	1617	862	1.88
Non-pearl river delta region	1072	736	336	2.19
Unknown	110	74	36	2.06

^aA total of 467 non-Cantonese patients were excluded from this analysis
^bA total of 436 patients who live in other provinces were excluded from this analysis

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