The relation between socioeconomic and demographic factors and tumour stage in women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark, 1983-1999

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 653-659

  Dalton, S O ^a   During M ^b   Ross, L ^a   Carlsen, K ^a   Mortensen, P B ^c   Lynch, J ^d   Johansen, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c National Centre for Register based Research   (Denmark)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Population based; Registries; Socioeconomic position; Stage

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENOPAUSE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33748309140     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603294     Document Type: Article

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