Income-based disparities in the risk of distant-stage cervical cancer and 5-year mortality after the introduction of a National Cancer Screening Program in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study assessed the socioeconomic gradient in the risk of distant-stage cervical cancer (CC) at presentation and 5-year mortality for new CC patients after the introduction of a national Cancer Screening Program (NCSP) in Korea.

Methods

All new CC cases from 2007 to 2017 were retrieved from the Korea Central Cancer Registry database linked with the National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service. The age-standardized cumulative incidence of CC, adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of distant metastasis at presentation, and adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios (HRs) within 5 years post-diagnosis were assessed according to the income gradient.

Results

The 11-year age-standardized cumulative incidence of CC ranged from 48.9 to 381

SUBMITTER: Bolormaa E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089710 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature