Basic characteristics of the participants
esophageal cancer, gastric cardia adenocarcinomas, SD, squamous cell carcinoma and, adenocarcinoma
OESOPHAGEAL CANCER
A total of 60 patients (32 male, 28 female) with stage I–III esophageal cancer including squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, in addition to stage I–III Siewert type I esophagogastric junction (EGJ) and gastric cardia adenocarcinomas were included in the study.With regard to the gender ratio of the participants, in both groups there was 16 (53.3%) males and 14 (46.7%) females.Mean ± SD age of total participants was 66.55 ± 11.57. Mean age of participants in control group was 67.17 ± 12.73 and in intervention group was 65.93 ± 10.46. We found that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of age (t(58) = 0.410, 