Do patient characteristics, disease, or treatment explain social inequality in survival from colorectal cancer?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1107-1115

  Frederiksen, Birgitte Lidegaard ^a   Osler, Merete ^a   Harling, Henrik ^b   Ladelund, Steen ^c   Jørgensen, Torben ^a  

^a Research Centre for Prevention and Health   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Causality; Colorectal cancer; Comorbidity; Denmark; Lifestyle; Socioeconomic status; Survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE TREATMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DENMARK; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 69949126138     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.040     Document Type: Article

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