1. Cancer Mortality by Country of Birth, Sex, and Socioeconomic Position in Sweden, 1961–2009
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Gholamreza Abdoli, Matteo Bottai, and Tahereh Moradi
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Male ,Colorectal cancer ,Epidemiology ,lcsh:Medicine ,Social Sciences ,Cohort Studies ,Database and Informatics Methods ,Sociology ,Risk Factors ,Neoplasms ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Public and Occupational Health ,lcsh:Science ,Multidisciplinary ,Mortality rate ,Cancer Risk Factors ,Socioeconomic Aspects of Health ,Oncology ,symbols ,Female ,Cancer Epidemiology ,Cohort study ,Research Article ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Death Rates ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,Health Informatics ,Social class ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Environmental Epidemiology ,symbols.namesake ,Breast cancer ,Sex Factors ,Population Metrics ,medicine ,Humans ,Poisson regression ,Demography ,Aged ,Gynecology ,Sweden ,Health Care Policy ,Population Biology ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Parturition ,Cancer ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Health Risk Analysis ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,Social Epidemiology ,Health Care ,Social Class ,Women's Health ,lcsh:Q ,Health Statistics ,business - Abstract
In 2010, cancer deaths accounted for more than 15% of all deaths worldwide, and this fraction is estimated to rise in the coming years. Increased cancer mortality has been observed in immigrant populations, but a comprehensive analysis by country of birth has not been conducted. We followed all individuals living in Sweden between 1961 and 2009 (7,109,327 men and 6,958,714 women), and calculated crude cancer mortality rates and age-standardized rates (ASRs) using the world population for standardization. We observed a downward trend in all-site ASRs over the past two decades in men regardless of country of birth but no such trend was found in women. All-site cancer mortality increased with decreasing levels of education regardless of sex and country of birth (p for trend
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- 2014