Are there socio-economic inequalities in age of resection of colorectal cancer in people with HNPCC?
The relationship between socio-economic status and health has been consistently reported and is thought to be causal. Socio-economic inequalities are present in the incidence of and mortality from cancer in general, but not in the incidence of colorectal cancer in particular. However, there are socio-economic gradients in mortality from colorectal cancer. The socio-economic distribution of incidence of and mortality from colorectal cancer in individuals with hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (Lynch syndrome) is not known. It is possible that increased awareness of and access to screening for colorectal cancer amongst this group of individuals reduces the socio-economic gradients seen in the population as a whole. We investigated the relationship between socio-economic status and age of resection of colorectal cancer in a cohort of individuals with hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer. More affluent individuals tended to undergo surgical resection for colorectal cancers earlier in
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