Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence in Europe: a comprehensive review of population-based epidemiological studies

Abstract

Since the end of the previous century, there has not been a comprehensive review of European studies on socioeconomic inequality in cancer incidence. In view of recent advances in data source linkage and analytical methods, we aimed to update the knowledge base on associations between location-specific cancer incidence and individual or area-level measures of socio-economic status (SES) among European adults.

Keywords

• socioeconomic status
• socioeconomic inequality
• cancer incidence
• adults
• europe
• cancer registry
• relative risk