Demographic differences in stage at diagnosis and cervical cancer survival in New Zealand, 1994-2005

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 955-963

  Brewer, Naomi ^a   Pearce, Neil ^a   Jeffreys, Mona ^a,b   White, Paul ^c   Ellison Loschmann, Lis ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAORI; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349198147     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2008.1163     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. New Zealand Health Information Service. Cancer: New registrations and deaths 2004. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2007.
2. The Descriptive Epidemiology Group of IARC. Globocan 2002. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2002.
3. National Cervical Screening Programme. Cervical screening in New Zealand. A brief statistical review of the first decade. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2005.
4. Brewer N, McKenzie F, Wong KC, Ellison-Loschmann L. National Cervical Screening Programme. Annual monitoring report 2006. Wellington, New Zealand: Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, 2008.
5. New Zealand Health Information Service. Cancer deaths and new registrations 2005 & selected sites 2006. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Health Information Service, 2008.
6. Paul S, Tobias M, Wright C. Setting outcome targets for the National Cervical Screening Programme. A report for the National Screening Unit. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2005.
7. National Screening Unit. Guidelines for cervical screening in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2008.
8. Robson B, Purdie G, Cormack D. Unequal impact: Māori and non-Māori cancer statistics 1996-2001. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2006.
9. Brewer N, Jeffreys M, Pearce N. Cervical cancer survival in New Zealand [Abstract]. Australas Epidemiol 2007; 14:82.
10. Jeffreys M, Stevanovic V, Tobias M, et al. Ethnic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand: Linkage study. Am J Public Health 2005;95:834-837.
11. Robson B, Harris R, eds. Hauora: Māori standards of health IV. A study of the years 2000-2005. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Ropu Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pomare, 2007.
12. Eggleston KS, Coker AL, Williams M, Tortolero-Luna G, Martin JB, Tortolero SR. Cervical cancer survival by socioeconomic status, race=ethnicity, and place of residence in Texas, 1995-2001. J Womens Health 2006;15:941-951.
13. Akers AY, Newmann SJ, Smith JS. Factors underlying disparities in cervical cancer incidence, screening, and treatment in the United States. Curr Probl Cancer 2007;31: 157-181.
14. Yabroff KR, Lawrence WF, King JC, et al. Geographic disparities in cervical cancer mortality: What are the roles of risk factor prevalence, screening, and use of recommended treatment? J Rural Health 2005;21:149-157.
15. Ministry of Health. Cancer: New registrations and deaths 2005. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2008.
16. Ministry of Health. Cancer in New Zealand: Trends and projections. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2002.
17. Giles GG. In praise of cancer registries. ANZ J Surg 2004;74:190.
18. Giles GG, Thursfield V. Cancer statistics: Everything you wanted to know about the Cancer Registry data but were too afraid to ask. Aust NZ J Surg 2004;74:931-934.
19. The Descriptive Epidemiology Group of IARC. CANCER-Mondial. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2008.
20. New Zealand Health Information Service. New Zealand Cancer Registry data dictionary. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Health Information Service, 2004.
21. Cunningham R, Sarfati D, Hill S, Kenwright D. An audit of colon cancer data on the New Zealand Cancer Registry. NZ Med J 2008;121:46-56.
22. Stevens W, Stevens G, Kolbe J, Cox B. Comparison of New Zealand Cancer Registry data with an independent lung cancer audit. NZ Med J 2008;121:29-41.
23. Douglas NM, Dockerty JD. Survival by ethnicity for children diagnosed with cancer in New Zealand during 1990-1993. J Paediatr Child Health 2007;43:173-177.
24. Ministry of Health. Ethnicity data protocols for the health and disability sector. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2004.
25. New Zealand Department of Statistics. Ethnicity in New Zealand: Recommendations for a standard classification. Discussion paper. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Statistics, 1990.
26. Ministry of Health. Cancer patient survival covering the period 1994 to 2003. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2006.
27. Crampton P, Salmond C, Kirkpatrick R. Degrees of deprivation in New Zealand. An atlas of socioeconomic difference, 2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd, 2004.
28. Statistics New Zealand. classification of urban area. Wellington, New Zealand: Statistics New Zealand, 2008.
29. Young JL Jr, Roffers SD, Ries LAG, Fritz AG, Hurlbut AA, eds. SEER summary staging manual-2000: Codes and coding instructions. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No. 01-4969, 2001.
30. Benedet JL, Pecorelli S, Ngan HYS, et al. Staging classifications and clinical practice guidelines for gynaecological cancers. International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2006. Geneva, Switzerland.
31. Cox D. Regression models and life tables. J R Stat Soc 1972;34:187-220.
32. Ajwani S, Blakely T, Robson B, Tobias M, Bonne M. Decades of disparity: Ethnic mortality trends in New Zealand 1980- 1999. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2003.
33. Blakely T, Tobias M, Atkinson J, Yeh L-C, Huang K. Tracking disparity: Trends in ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, 1981-2004. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2007.
34. Condon JR, Barnes T, Armstrong BK, Selva-Nayagam S, Elwood JM. Stage at diagnosis and cancer survival for indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory. Med J Aust 2005;182:277-280. (Pubitemid 40425880)
35. Sadler L, Priest P, Peters J, Crengle S, Jackson R. The New Zealand Cervical Cancer Audit Report. Screening of women with cervical cancer, 2000-2002. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2004.
36. Sneyd MJ. Ethnic differences in prostate cancer survival in New Zealand: A national study. Cancer Causes Control 2008;19:993-999.
37. Haynes R, Pearce J, Barnett R. Cancer survival in New Zealand: Ethnic, social and geographical inequalities. Soc Sci Med 2008;67:928-937.
38. Gill AJ, Martin IG. Survival from upper gastrointestinal cancer in New Zealand: The effect of distance from a major hospital, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age and gender. Aust NZ J Surg 2002;72:643-646.
39. Bennett H, Marshall R, Campbell I, Lawrenson R. Women with breast cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand: The effect of urban versus rural residence on stage at diagnosis and survival. NZ Med J 2007;120:U2831.
40. Dachs GU, Currie MJ, McKenzie F, et al. Cancer disparities in indigenous Polynesian populations: Māori, native Hawaiians, and Pacific people. Lancet Oncol 2008;9:473-484.
41. Pearce N, Foliaki S, Sporle A, Cunningham C. Genetics, race, ethnicity, and health. BMJ 2004;328:1070-1072.
42. Durie MH. Te Hoe Nuku Roa Framework: A Māori identity measure. J Polynesian Soc 1995;104:461-470.
43. Ellison-Loschmann L, Pearce N. Improving access to health care among New Zealand's Māori population. Am J Public Health 2006;96:612-617.
44. Cormack D, Robson B, Purdie G, Ratima M, Brown R. Access to cancer services for Māori. A report prepared for the Ministry of Health. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Ministry of Health, 2005.
45. Tobias M, Yeh LC. How much does health care contribute to health inequality in New Zealand? Aust NZ J Public Health 2007;31:207-210.
46. Smedley B, Stith A, Nelson A, eds. Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002.
47. McFadden K, McConnell D, Salmond C, Crampton P, Fraser J. Socioeconomic deprivation and the incidence of cervical cancer in New Zealand: 1988-1998. NZ Med J 2004;117: U1172.
48. Metcalf PA, Scragg RR, Schaaf D, Dyall L, Black PN, Jackson RT. Comparison of different markers of socioeconomic status with cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors in the Diabetes, Heart and Health Survey. NZ Med J 2008; 121:45-56.