Socio-economic status and oesophageal cancer: results from a population-based case–control study in a high-risk area

AUTOR(ES)

Islami, Farhad

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

Background Cancer registries in the 1970s showed that parts of Golestan Province in Iran had the highest rate of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in the world. More recent studies have shown that while rates are still high, they are approximately half of what they were before, which might be attributable to improved socio-economic status (SES) and living conditions in this area. We examined a wide range of SES indicators to investigate the association between different SES components and risk of OSCC in the region.

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