Effect of socioeconomic status on survival from cervical cancer in Sheffield.

• DOI: 10.1136/jech.41.3.200
• Publication Date: 2008-11-12T20:09:01Z
• Authors: P C Milner; M Watts
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; England; Socioeconomic Factors; Age Factors; Humans; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms; Female; Middle Aged; Aged; 3. Good health

The relation between age at registration, socioeconomic status, and survival from cervical cancer for women resident in Sheffield was examined using the 556 such cases registered with Trent Cancer Registry 1971 to 1984. address electoral ward registration were used categorize status of 99% women. Five year all 49%, increasing having a predictable deleterious effect. Socioeconomic seemed have little effect on survival, especially when covarying had been taken into account. It is hypothesised that inequalities demonstrated elsewhere largely prevented by good access effective treatment National Health Service.