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. 2005 Apr 11;92(7):1279-82.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602506.

Choice of geographic unit influences socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival

L M Woods  1 , B Rachet, M P Coleman
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Choice of geographic unit influences socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival

L M Woods et al. Br J Cancer. .

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.

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Crude age-standardised 5-year survival, with 95% confidence intervals, by Townsend deprivation category and associated fitted quadratic regression lines in (A) 1991 and (B) 2001: England, women (15–99 years) diagnosed with breast cancer 1991–1999 and followed up until 2001. P-values originate from a likelihood ratio test of the interaction between deprivation category and geographic unit of analysis (see text).
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