Epidemiology and cost analysis for patients with oral cancer in a university hospital in China

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Table 10 Results of multiple regression that evaluate age, gender, medicare, smoking habit, pathology, census register variables in relation to costs of OC patients

Design of variable
Age: 0 = younger than 40 years old, 1 = older than 40 years old
Medicare: 0 = medicare, 1 = without medicare
Gender: 0 = female, 1 = male
Smoking habit: 0 = no, 1 = yes
Pathology: 0 = adenocarcinoma, 1 = SCC
Census register: 0 = rural, 1 = urban
Clinic stage: 0 = early stage, 1 = late stage
Note: only SCC and adenocarcinoma patient was selected for the analysis because of the rare sample of the other pathology groups.

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