ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation

Worse breast cancer outcomes for women from poorer backgrounds are not due to late diagnosis alone

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 6th, 2010

The largest study in Europe to look at the link between socioeconomic status and survival after breast cancer has found that women from poorer backgrounds have worse outcomes and that this is only partly explained by more advanced cancer at diagnosis.

Although other studies have found that lower socioeconomic status is linked with women consulting their doctors at a later stage when their cancer is more advanced, this is the first study to show that there may be other factors at work that mean these women are more likely to die from their disease.

Dr Esther Bastiaannet, an epidemiologist at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands),...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-04-06)

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