Socioeconomic effects on breast cancer survival: proportion attributable to stage and morphology.

Brewster et al (2001) reported no significant differences in stage among socioeconomic groups, but a reanalysis of their tabular data on tumour size in breast cancer patients shows a significant trend of increasing size with deprivation ( χ =5.17, 1 degree of freedom, P =0.02).

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