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Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B
Cancer II
Equity in cancer patient survival in Finland
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Objectives
To study temporal, regional and education-related differences in cancer patient survival in Finland by site and sex.
Design
Population-based relative and cause-specific cancer survival analysis using the complete and period methods.
Setting
Five Cancer Control Regions (CCRs) comprising each of approximately one million population covering whole of Finland. Patients’ level of education was studied using three classes: basic, secondary and higher obtained from population census made before diagnosis of cancer.
Participants
For regional survival, the patients were of …