Associations Between Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Survival: Choice of SES Indicator May Affect Results

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 521-528

  Zhang Salomons, Jina ^a   Qian, H ^a   Holowaty, E ^a   Mackillop, W J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Census; Income; Poverty; Socioeconomic Factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; OCCUPATION; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INCOME; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745480036     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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