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Does deprivation affect breast cancer management?

Henley NC, Hole DJ, Kesson E, Burns HJ, George WD, Cooke TG

University Department of Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER, Scotland, UK. nhenley@doctors.org.uk

We evaluated whether social deprivation affected decision-making for breast cancer surgery. Of 3419 patients, 53.6% had mastectomy and this was predicted by deprivation, age, tumour size and hospital, all of which retained significance on multivariate analysis, except deprivation. Pathological characteristics and surgical decision-making determined choice of operation not deprivation.

Published 23 February 2005 in Br J Cancer, 92(4): 631-3.
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