Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival: A population-based study of adult patients diagnosed in Osaka, Japan, during the period 1993–2004

References

• Woods LM, Rachet B, Coleman MP. Origins of socio- economic inequalities in cancer survival: A review. Ann Oncol 2006;17:5–19.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kogevinas M, Porta M. Socioeconomic differences in cancer survival: A review of the evidence. IARC Sci Publ 1997;138:177–206.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Auvinen A, Karjalainen S, Pukkala E. Social class and cancer patient survival in Finland. Am J Epidemiol 1995; 142:1089–102.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yu XQ. Socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer survival: Relation to stage at diagnosis, treatment and race. BMC Cancer 2009;9:364.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pokhrel A, Martikainen P, Pukkala E, Rautalahti M, Seppa K, Hakulinen T. Education, survival and avoidable deaths in cancer patients in Finland. Br J Cancer 2010; 103:1109–14.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eaker S, Halmin M, Bellocco R, Bergkvist L, Ahlgren J, Holmberg L, et al. Social differences in breast cancer survival in relation to patient management within a National Health Care System (Sweden). Int J Cancer 2009;124:180–7.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cavalli-Bjorkman N, Lambe M, Eaker S, Sandin F, Glimelius B. Differences according to educational level in the management and survival of colorectal cancer in Sweden. Eur J Cancer 2011;47:1398–406.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dalton SO, Ross L, During M, Carlsen K, Mortensen PB, Lynch J, et al. Influence of socioeconomic factors on survival after breast cancer – a nationwide cohort study of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark 1983–1999. Int J Cancer 2007;121:2524–31.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schrijvers CT, Coebergh JW, van der Heijden LH, Mackenbach JP. Socioeconomic status and breast cancer survival in the southeastern Netherlands, 1980–1989. Eur J Cancer 1995;31a:1660–4.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schrijvers CT, Coebergh JW, van der Heijden LH, Mackenbach JP. Socioeconomic variation in cancer survival in the southeastern Netherlands, 1980–1989. Cancer 1995; 75:2946–53.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rachet B, Woods LM, Mitry E, Riga M, Cooper N, Quinn MJ, et al. Trends and inequalities in survival for 20 cancers in England and Wales 1986–2001: Population-based analyses and clinical commentaries. Br J Cancer 2008;99:S1–120.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lyratzopoulos G, Barbiere JM, Rachet B, Baum M, Thompson MR, Coleman MP. Changes over time in socioeconomic inequalities in breast and rectal cancer survival in England and Wales during a 32-year period (1973–2004): The potential role of health care. Ann Oncol 2011;22:1661–6.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ueda K, Kawachi I, Tsukuma H. Cervical and corpus cancer survival disparities by socioeconomic status in a metropolitan area of Japan. Cancer Sci 2006;97:283–91.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ueda K, Tsukuma H, Ajiki W, Oshima A. Socioeconomic factors and cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in a metropolitan area of Japan: A cross-sectional ecological study. Cancer Sci 2005;96:684–8.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• OECD. Income distribution and poverty at the OECD. 2013. [cited 2013 Jul 12]. Available from: http://www.oecd.org/social/inequality.htm.
   Google Scholar
• Kagamimori S, Gaina A, Nasermoaddeli A. Socioeconomic status and health in the Japanese population. Soc Sci Med 2009;68:2152–60.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilmoth J, Shkolnikov V. The human mortality database. 2013. [cited 2013 Jun 25]. Available from: http://www.mortality.org/.
   Google Scholar
• Coleman MP, Quaresma M, Berrino F, Lutz JM, De Angelis R, Capocaccia R, et al. Cancer survival in five continents: A worldwide population-based study (CONCORD). Lancet Oncol 2008;9:730–56.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kondo N, Sembajwe G, Kawachi I, van Dam RM, Subramanian SV, Yamagata Z. Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: Meta-analysis of multilevel studies. Br Med J 2009;339:b4471.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wada K, Kondo N, Gilmour S, Ichida Y, Fujino Y, Satoh T, et al. Trends in cause specific mortality across occupations in Japanese men of working age during period of economic stagnation, 1980–2005: Retrospective cohort study. Br Med J 2012;344:e1191.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shin HR, Curado MP, Ferlay J, Heanue M, Edwards B, Storm H. Chapter 5: Comparability and quality of data. In: Curado MP, Edwards B, Shin HR, Storm H, Ferlay J, Heanue M, et al., editors. Cancer incidence in five continents, Vol. IX. Lyon: IARC; 2007. p. 67–94.
   Google Scholar
• Waterhouse J, Muir CS, Correa P, Powell, J, editors. Cancer incidence in five continents, Vol. III. Lyon: IARC; 1976.
   Google Scholar
• Forman D, Bray F, Brewster DH, Gombe Mbalawa C, Kohler B, Piñeros M, et al., editors. Cancer incidence in five continents, Vol. X (electronic version). Lyon: IARC; 2014. [cited 2013 Aug 13] Available from: http://ci5.iarc.fr.
   Google Scholar
• Matsuda T, Marugame T, Kamo K, Katanoda K, Ajiki W, Sobue T, et al. Cancer incidence and incidence rates in Japan in 2004: Based on data from 14 population-based cancer registries in the Monitoring of Cancer Incidence in Japan (MCIJ) Project. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2010;40:1192–200.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rachet B, Quinn MJ, Cooper N, Coleman MP. Survival from cancer of the larynx in England and Wales up to2001. Br J Cancer 2008;99 (Suppl 1):S35–7.
   Google Scholar
• Gordon D. Census based deprivation indices: Their weighting and validation. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49(Suppl 2):S39–44.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pornet C, Delpierre C, Dejardin O, Grosclaude P, Launay L, Guittet L, et al. Construction of an adaptable European transnational ecological deprivation index: The French version. J Epidemiol Community Health 2012;66:982–9.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• JGSS Research Center. The Japanese General Social Surveys. [cited 2013 Aug 13]. Available from: http://jgss.daishodai.ac.jp/english/index.html.
   Google Scholar
• Nakaya T. Evaluating socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality by using areal statistics in Japan: A note on the relation between the municipal cancer mortality and the areal deprivation index. Proc Inst Stat Math 2011;59:239–65.
   Google Scholar
• Miller K, Merry B, Miller J. Seasons of survivorship revisited. Cancer J 2008;14:369–74.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perme MP, Stare J, Esteve J. On estimation in relative survival. Biometrics 2012;68:113–20.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woods LM, Rachet B, Coleman MP. Choice of geographic unit influences socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival. Br J Cancer 2005;92:1279–82.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• StataCorp. Stata Statistical Software: Release 12. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP. 2011.
   Google Scholar
• Ito Y, Ioka A, Tsukuma H, Ajiki W, Sugimoto T, Rachet B, et al. Regional differences in population-based cancer survival between six prefectures in Japan: Application of relative survival models with funnel plots. Cancer Sci 2009;100:1306–11.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shack LG, Rachet B, Williams EM, Northover JM, Coleman MP. Does the timing of comorbidity affect colorectal cancer survival?A population based study. Postgrad Med J 2010;86:73–8.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ibfelt EH, Kjaer SK, Hogdall C, Steding-Jessen M, Kjaer TK, Osler M, et al. Socioeconomic position and survival after cervical cancer: Influence of cancer stage, comorbidity and smoking among Danish women diagnosed between 2005 and 2010. Br J Cancer 2013;109:2489–95.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morris EJ, Taylor EF, Thomas JD, Quirke P, Finan PJ, Coleman MP, et al. Thirty-day postoperative mortality after colorectal cancer surgery in England. Gut 2011;60:806–13.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jack RH, Gulliford MC, Ferguson J, Moller H. Explaining inequalities in access to treatment in lung cancer. J Eval Clin Pract 2006;12:573–82.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jack RH, Gulliford MC, Ferguson J, Moller H. Geographical inequalities in lung cancer management and survival in South East England: Evidence of variation in access to oncology services? Br J Cancer 2003;88:1025–31.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar