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Cancer Risk Factors
Cancer risk does not appear related to socioeconomic variation in Norwegian women
March 2nd, 2006
Cancer risk does not appear to be related to socioeconomic variation in Norwegian women. According to scientists in Norway, "Associations between level of education and cancer risk are well supported by scientific evidence, but previous studies could only partly adjust for relevant confounding factors. In this article we examined how risk of cancer varies with level of education and identified factors that explain this variation using data from a prospective cohort study, including 93,638 Norwegian women who responded to an extensive questionnaire in 1991/1992 or 1996/1997." T. Braaten and colleagues of the University of Tromso explained, "A total of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-03-02)
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