Cancer survival and social class in Sweden.
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Cancer survival and social class in Sweden.
A study of 98,000 cases in the Swedish Cancer Registry from 1961 to 1979 was undertaken. The relative survival by social class was calculated. There was a higher survival probability for white collar workers than for blue collar workers or self-employed farmers for all cancer, as well as for particular cancers, such as, for instance, cancer of the breast and cervix among women and cancer of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.41.3.204