Socio-economic inequalities in testicular cancer survival within two clinical studies

Socio-economic inequalities in testicular cancer survival within two clinical studies.

BACKGROUND Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men under 35 years of age, and has the highest survival for adult male malignancies. Despite the fact that survival is very high, there is evidence that survival differs between socio-economic groups. METHODS We analysed survival patterns for 1606 testicular cancer patients diagnosed during 1984-2001 and recruited to one of two clinica...

Origins of socio-economic inequalities in cancer survival: a review.

BACKGROUND Cancer survival is known to vary by socio-economic group. A review of studies published by 1995 showed this association to be universal and resilient to the many different ways in which socio-economic status was determined. Differences were most commonly attributed to differences in stage of disease at diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of research published since 1995 exami...

Socio-economic inequalities in survival from screen-detected breast cancer in South West England: population-based cohort study.

BACKGROUND Socio-economic inequalities in breast cancer survival have been reported worldwide, but whether these exist in screen detected as well as symptomatic women has not been established. Making this distinction will allow inferences about the relative contributions of pre- and post-diagnostic delay to these inequalities. METHODS Screening-eligible women diagnosed with breast cancer in S...

Socio-Economic Inequalities in Survival of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Role of Age and Gleason Grade at Diagnosis

In the United Kingdom, survival of prostate cancer patients has improved since the 1990s. A deprivation gap in survival (better survival for the least deprived compared with the most deprived) has been reported but it is not known if differential distribution of earlier age or lower grade disease at diagnosis might explain such patterns. We therefore investigated the impact of age and Gleason g...

Measuring Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health: A Practical Guide