Social class dictates cancer risk
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
Cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people while rates of breast cancer and melanoma are higher in the wealthy. A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published in the open access journal BMC Cancer, describes the effects of socioeconomic group, region and age...
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