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In women the most common types of cancer were those affecting the oesophagus, breast, cervix, stomach, skin, colon\/rectum, and lungs. Cancer of the oesophagus was the most frequent type in both sexes, accounting for 42.9% of all types of cancer in the valley. This distribution of cancer types is strikingly different from that in the rest of India where oropharyngeal cancer is the most common form. Again, contrary to the trend in India as a whole, cervical cancer is not a leading type of cancer in the valley and is less frequent even than cancer of the breast in the women. CONCLUSIONS--The preponderance of oesophageal cancer was attributable to the local practice of drinking boiling hot salt tea. 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