Choice of geographic unit influences socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival.
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.
Woods
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LM
Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. laura.woods@lshtm.ac.uk
Rachet
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Coleman
M P
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality*; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012923:Social Class; D016019:Survival Analysis