Cancer incidence varies by socioeconomic group
and these variations have been linked with environmental and lifestyle factors,
differences in access to health care and health seeking behaviour.
Socioeconomic variations in cancer incidence by region and age are less clearly
understood but they are crucial for targeting prevention measures and health
care commissioning.Incidence was
highest for the most deprived patients for lung cancer and cervical cancer,
whilst the opposite was observed for malignant melanoma and breast cancer.