Choice of geographic unit influences socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival
Open Access
- 29 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 92 (7), 1279-1282
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602506
Abstract
Socioeconomic differences in age-standardised crude survival for women diagnosed with breast cancer during 1991–1999 in England were influenced by the population of the geographic area used to assign the deprivation index, but not by the choice of index.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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