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Choice of Geographic Unit Influences Socioeconomic Inequalities in Breast Cancer Survival

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Journal Br J Cancer
Specialty Oncology
Date 2005 Mar 31
PMID 15798765
Citations 44
Authors
L M Woods
B Rachet
M P Coleman
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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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