Temporal trends show improved breast cancer survival in Australia but widening urban-rural differences

Title: Temporal trends show improved breast cancer survival in Australia but widening urban-rural differences
Creator: Yu, Xue Qin; Luo, Qingwei; Kahn, Clare; O'Connell, Dianne L.; Houssami, Nehmat
Relation: NHMRC.550002
Relation: Breast Vol. 24, Issue 4, p. 524-527
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2015.03.006
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: We examined geographic patterns in breast cancer survival over time using population-based data for breast cancer diagnosed between 1987 and 2007 in New South Wales, Australia. We found that five-year relative survival increased during the entire study period. Multivariable analysis indicated that there was little geographic variation in 1992-1996, but in 1997-2001 and 2002-2007 geographic variation was statistically significant (P < 0.01), with women living in rural areas having higher risk of death from breast cancer. The underlying reasons for this widening survival disparity must be identified so that appropriately targeted interventions can be implemented and the disparity reduced.
Subject: breast cancer; geography; inequality; temporal trends; survival; population health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1334360
Identifier: uon:27281
Identifier: ISSN:0960-9776
Language: eng
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