Is the rate of biological aging, as measured by age at diagnosis of cancer, socioeconomically patterned?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 146-151

  Adams, Jean ^a   White, Martin ^a   Forman, David ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; POVERTY; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD; YORKSHIRE;

EID: 12344268784     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.021006     Document Type: Article

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