Are deprivation-specific cancer survival patterns similar according to individual-based and area-based measures? A cohort study of patients diagnosed with five malignancies in England and Wales, 2008-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate if measured inequalities in cancer survival differ when using individual-based ('person') compared with area-based ('place') measures of deprivation for three socioeconomic dimensions: income, deprivation and occupation.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

Data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study of England and Wales, UK, linked to the National Cancer Registration Database.

Participants

Patients diagnosed with cancers of the colorectum, breast, prostate, bladder or with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during the period 2008-2016.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Differentials in net survival between groups defined by individual wage, occupation and education compared with those obtained from corresponding area-level

SUBMITTER: Woods LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189835 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature