Social class dictates cancer risk

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Cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people while rates of breast cancer and melanoma are higher in the wealthy. A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published today in the open access journal BMC Cancer, describes the effects of socioeconomic group, region and age.

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[Jackie07]

Very intersting article. I am sure it probably applies to most countries and cultures. In Taiwan, Lung cancer has been no. one killer regardless of socio-economic class because of the air pollution problem.