SOCIOECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO TREATMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVAL

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Patients diagnosed with colon cancer living in France had a better prognosis than those living in England for the first year after diagnosis (EHR ¼ 0.70 (0.66–0.75)) (Table 3,

Results: We reported the conventional age-standardized net survival (ASNS) and described the changes of the EMH over the time since diagnosis at different levels of deprivation.

Previous studies investigating the influence of social environment on cancer survival for several solid tumor sites with comparable methodology (i.e.

In men, higher area deprivation was associated with a higher incidence of prostate cancer (relative risk (RR) 1.25, 95% credible interval (CI) 1.04-1.49; RR 1.08, CI 0.91-1.29 in

For patients with cancer, but specifically patients with head and neck cancer, the current study high- lights their experience of not having adequate information, referral

Factors included in this final model (Table 4) together accounted for almost all the M ā ori/non- M ā ori disparity in cancer survival, with M ā ori patients only 7% more likely to

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