Published 8 September 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1598
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1598

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People in deprived areas of England are less likely to survive cancer

Oona Mashta

1 London

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People living in the most deprived areas of England are even less likely to survive common cancers than previously believed, new figures published by the Office for National Statistics indicate.

The largest differences between people living in deprived areas and the rest of England are in cancers of the bladder and rectum, the figures show.

Researchers from the Office for National Statistics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analysed data from patients who were given diagnoses of seven common cancers during 1998 to 2003. They compared cancer survival among people living in "spearhead" primary care trusts—those that the government identified in 2004 as needing particular interventions to improve health and life expectancy—with that in the rest of England. There are now 62 of these spearhead trusts.

Even after the data were adjusted for age, sex, and socioeconomic group the researchers found that one year and five year . . . [Full text of this article]


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