Socioeconomic inequalities in incidence of lung and upper aero-digestive tract cancer by age, tumour subtype and sex: A population-based study in Scotland (2000-2007)

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sharpe, Katharine H ^a   McMahon, Alex D ^b   McClements, Paula ^a   Watling, Chris ^a   Brewster, David H ^a,c   Conway, David I ^b  

^a INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer; Histology; Lung; Relative Index of Inequality; Risk; Scotland; Slope Index of Inequality; Socioeconomic inequality; Upper aero digestive tract

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER AERO DIGESTIVE TRACT CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860682666     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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