Geographic remoteness, area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and inequalities in colorectal cancer survival in Queensland: A multilevel analysis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

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

^a CANCER COUNCIL QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Epidemiology; Inequalities; Multilevel; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUEENSLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886038687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-493     Document Type: Article

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