Multilevel determinants of breast cancer survival: Association with geographic remoteness and area-level socioeconomic disadvantage

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 701-710

  Dasgupta, Paramita ^a   Baade, Peter D ^a,b,c   Aitken, Joanne F ^a,c,d   Turrell, Gavin ^b  

^a VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Multilevel modeling; Socio economic; Survival in equalities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; QUEENSLAND; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84859105207     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1899-y     Document Type: Article

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