Socio-economic position, area-level deprivation and gradients in cancer incidence: England and Wales, 1971-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social gradients for cancer mortality and survival have been reported but are less clear for cancer incidence where social factors external to health care systems are likely to be of more etiologic importance.

Methods

We examined social gradients in cancer incidence using data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS), which selects an approximately 1.1% representative sample of the population of England and Wales. Data were analyzed for each successive ten-year census period from 1971-2011 with outcome data to 2016, the latest date available. Socioeconomic position of individuals was assessed using the National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC). Areal level deprivation was measured using deciles of the Townsend Index. Can

SUBMITTER: Hiatt RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849355 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature