Cancer disparities: Projection, COVID-19, and scenario-based diagnosis delay impact.

ABSTRACT: There has been limited research on how disparities in cancer mortality may evolve in the future, although relevant socio-economic and regional disparities in cancer risk are well-documented. We studied future trends in breast cancer (BC) and lung cancer (LC) mortality up to 2036 across affluent and deprived communities in nine regions of England, motivated by the distinct socio-economic patterns and burden of these cancer types. We used cancer death registrations from the Office for National Statistics on population and deaths in nine regions of England by underlying cause of death from 2001 to 2018, stratified by sex, 5-year age group, and income deprivation. We applied a gender- and cause-specific Bayesian hierarchical model to obtain robust estimates of cancer mortality by age group, ge

SUBMITTER: Arik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12404486 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature