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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2016

Urban Rural Differences in Breast Cancer in New Zealand.

Ross Lawrenson, Chunhuan Lao, Mark Elwood, Charis Brown, Diana Sarfati, Ian Campbell

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  6. Geographical Variation in Breast Cancer Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017
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6 authors.

Ross LawrensonNational Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, The University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. Ross.Lawrenson@waikatodhb.health.nz.
Chunhuan LaoNational Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, The University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. clao@waikato.ac.nz.
Mark ElwoodSchool of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. mark.elwood@auckland.ac.nz.
Charis BrownNational Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, The University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. charis@waikato.ac.nz.
Diana SarfatiDepartment of Public Health, The University of Otago, Wellington 6021, New Zealand. diana.sarfati@otago.ac.nz.
Ian CampbellSchool of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. Ian.campbell@waikatodhb.health.nz.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many rural communities have poor access to health services due to a combination of distance from specialist services and a relative shortage of general practitioners. Our aims were to compare the characteristics of urban and rural women with breast cancer in New Zealand, to assess breast cancer-specific and all-cause survival using the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazards model, and to assess whether the impact of rurality is different for Māori and New Zealand (NZ) European women. We found that rural women tended to be older and were more likely to be Māori. Overall there were no differences between urban and rural women with regards their survival. Rural Māori tended to be older, more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic disease and less likely to be screen detected than urban Māori. Rural Māori women had inferior breast cancer-specific survival and all-cause survival at 10 years at 72.1% and 55.8% compared to 77.9% and 64.9% for urban Māori. The study shows that rather than being concerned that more needs to be done for rural women in general it is rural Māori women where we need to make extra efforts to ensure early stage at diagnosis and optimum treatment.

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMiddle AgedNew ZealandPopulation GroupsProportional Hazards ModelsRural PopulationUrban Populationbreast cancerequityMāoriruralsurvivalurban

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PMID27727190
PMCPMC5086739

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