Socioeconomic status and comorbidity among newly diagnosed cancer patients
✍ Scribed by Carola T. M. Schrijvers; Jan Willem W. Coebergh; Johan P. Mackenbach
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
METHODS.
Included in the analyses were patients registered in 1993 in the population-based Eindhoven Cancer Registry (southeastern Netherlands) with one of the 2 Eindhoven Cancer Registry, Comprehensive most common carcinomas: breast (n Å 457), lung (n Å 442), colorectum (n Å 384), Cancer Center South, Eindhoven, The Netherprostate (n Å 240), and stomach (n Å 118). Information regarding comorbidity lands.
came from medical records. The SES of the patients was derived from their postal
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