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National Cancer Registry, Ireland
Analysis of cancer incidence by small area (electoral division level) allows the Registry to examine local variations in cancer risk and to describe geographical variations in more detail. Collaborating with researchers in the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, an All-Ireland Cancer Atlas was published which illustrated the geographical variation in cancer incidence on the island of Ireland and described the socio-economic and demographic effects on cancer risk, including the effect of population density, percentage unemployed and degree level education.
- Cancer rates should not be adjusted for socio-economic status in international comparisons
- New study reveals risk of several cancers is higher in urban areas
- Risk of several cancers is higher in urban areas after adjusting for socioeconomic status. Results from a two-country population-based study of 18 common cancers
- The impact of adjustment for socioeconomic status on comparisons of cancer incidence between two European countries
- Geographical, urban/rural and socioeconomic variations in nonmelanoma skin cancer incidence: a population-based study in Ireland
- Geographical analysis of cancer incidence in Ireland: a comparison of two Bayesian spatial models
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