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Changing patterns of breast cancer incidence and mortality by education level over four decades in Norway, 1971–2009

Author(s) -

Cassia B. Trewin-Nybråten,

Bjørn Heine Strand,

Harald WeedonFekjær,

Giske Ursin

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

european journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056

H-Index - 91

eISSN - 1464-360X

pISSN - 1101-1262

DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckw148

Subject(s) - demography , breast cancer , incidence (geometry) , medicine , confidence interval , poisson regression , relative risk , rate ratio , mortality rate , standardized mortality ratio , cancer registry , cancer , relative survival , population , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics

In the last century, breast cancer incidence and mortality was higher among higher versus lower educated women in developed countries. Post-millennium, incidence rates have flattened off and mortality declined. We examined breast cancer trends by education level, to see whether recent improvements in incidence and mortality rates have occurred in all education groups.

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