Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Higher education associated with greater gains in mortality reduction from common cancers
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, July 21st, 2008
Deaths due to the four most common cancers—lung, colorectal, prostate, and breast—have dropped substantially in the United States from 1993 to 2001 in working-aged individuals. However, not all Americans are equally likely to benefit from those gains. A study published in the July 8 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that more highly educated individuals had mortality reductions in nearly all of these cancers, while less educated individuals had a mortality reduction in only one of the cancer types.
In previous studies, researchers examined the impact of area-level socioeconomic status (SES) on cancer mortality trends and found an...
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