Browsing by Subject "Oesophageal cancer"

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Bayesian hierarchical models with applications to cervical, oesophageal and lung cancers in Kenya's Counties

Waitara, Joseph Kuria (Moi University, 2022)

Cancer is an event associated with space and time. Counties relative risks esti- mates can be obtained using Bayesian hierarchical models. The general objective of the research was to obtain county based estimates through ...
Hot beverages and oesophageal cancer risk in western Kenya:Findings from the ESCCAPE case–control study

Menya, Diana; Kigen, Nicholas; Oduor, Margaret; Maina, Stephen K; Some, Fatma; Chumba, David; Ayuo, Paul; Osano, Odipo (International Journal of Cancer, 2019)

Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has markedly high incidence rates in Kenya and much of East Africa, with a dire prognosis and poorly understood aetiology. Consumption of hot beverages—a probable carcinogen to ...
Spatial-temporal modelling of oesophageal and lung cancers in Kenya's counties

Waitara, Joseph Kuria; Kerich, Gregory; Kihoro, John; Korir, Anne (Science PG, 2021)

Oesophageal cancer is the cancer that forms in tissues lining the oesophagus (the muscular tube through which food passes from the throat to the stomach) while Lung cancer is the cancer that forms in tissues of the lung, ...

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