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Estimating the potential survival gains by eliminating socioeconomic and sex inequalities in stage at diagnosis of melanoma

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Cancer, March 2015
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Title
Estimating the potential survival gains by eliminating socioeconomic and sex inequalities in stage at diagnosis of melanoma
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British Journal of Cancer, March 2015
DOI 10.1038/bjc.2015.50
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M J Rutherford, L Ironmonger, N Ormiston-Smith, G A Abel, D C Greenberg, G Lyratzopoulos, P C Lambert

Abstract

Background:Although inequalities in cancer survival are thought to reflect inequalities in stage at diagnosis, little evidence exists about the size of potential survival gains from eliminating inequalities in stage at diagnosis.Methods:We used data on patients diagnosed with malignant melanoma in the East of England (2006-2010) to estimate the number of deaths that could be postponed by completely eliminating socioeconomic and sex differences in stage at diagnosis after fitting a flexible parametric excess mortality model.Results:Stage was a strong predictor of survival. There were pronounced socioeconomic and sex inequalities in the proportion of patients diagnosed at stages III-IV (12 and 8% for least deprived men and women and 25 and 18% for most deprived men and women, respectively). For an annual cohort of 1025 incident cases in the East of England, eliminating sex and deprivation differences in stage at diagnosis would postpone approximately 24 deaths to beyond 5 years from diagnosis. Using appropriate weighting, the equivalent estimate for England would be around 215 deaths, representing 11% of all deaths observed within 5 years from diagnosis in this population.Conclusions:Reducing socioeconomic and sex inequalities in stage at diagnosis would result in substantial reductions in deaths within 5 years of a melanoma diagnosis.British Journal of Cancer advance online publication, 3 March 2015; doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.50 www.bjcancer.com.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 43 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 8 18%
Researcher 6 14%
Student > Master 4 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 13 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 39%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 9%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 15 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 July 2023.
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#18
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