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Time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality: results from a 35 year prospective study in British men.

Ramsay, SE; Morris, RW; Whincup, PH; Papacosta, AO; Lennon, LT; Wannamethee, SG (2014) Time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality: results from a 35 year prospective study in British men. BMC Cancer, 14 (474). ISSN 1471-2407 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-474
SGUL Authors: Whincup, Peter Hynes

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Britain have been shown to be present in the 1990s and early 2000s. Little is known about on-going patterns in such inequalities in cancer mortality. We examined time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Britain between 1978 and 2013. METHODS: A socially representative cohort of 7489 British men with data on longest-held occupational social class, followed up for 35 years, in whom 1484 cancer deaths occurred. RESULTS: The hazard ratio for cancer mortality for manual vs. non-manual social classes remained unchanged; among men aged 50-59 years it was 1.62 (95%CI 1.17-2.24) between 1980-1990 and 1.65 (95%CI 1.14-2.40) between 1990-2000. The absolute difference (non-manual minus manual) in probability of surviving death from cancer to 70 years remained at 3% over the follow-up. The consistency of risks over time was similar for both smoking-related and non-smoking related cancer mortality. CONCLUSION: Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Britain remain unchanged over the last 35 years and need to be urgently addressed.

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Additional Information: © 2014 Ramsay et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords: Socioeconomic inequalities, Cancer mortality, Trends, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Oncology, ONCOLOGY, SOCIAL-CLASS DIFFERENCES, RISK-FACTORS, DEPRIVATION, SURVIVAL, ENGLAND, DIAGNOSIS, DISEASE, STAGE, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, 1112 Oncology And Carcinogenesis
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: BMC Cancer
ISSN: 1471-2407
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
30 June 2014Published
PubMed ID: 24975430
Web of Science ID: WOS:000338967200001
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URI: http://sgultest.da.ulcc.ac.uk/id/eprint/107230
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-474

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