Abstract
The unequal distribution of diseases among population groups has since long attracted the attention of epidemiologists. Largedifferences in disease risk have repeatedly been observed in relationship to socioeconomic indicators, such as educational level,occupational class and household income ( 1). With regards to cancer risk, a first comprehensive review of socioeconomic inequalities waspublished by IARC in 1997 ( 2). This review covered inequalities in cancer mortality, incidence and survival and discussed many possibleexplanations. More recently, there have been numerous studies describing social inequalities in cancer mortality ( 3
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