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Social determinants

__Of management and mortality
Two stories in the January 2012 issue of European Journal of Cancer:
* Differences according to socioeconomic status in the management and mortality in men with high risk prostate cancer. Excerpt: Amongst 17,522 high risk prostate cancer patients, a bone scan was more often performed in higher white-collar than in blue-collar workers.
* Colorectal cancer survival in socioeconomic groups in England. Except: For colon cancer there was a very high excess death rate in the first month of follow-up, and the excess death rate was highest in the socioeconomically deprived groups.

Education, not health literacy

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Education level, not health literacy, associated with information needs for patients with cancer
Patient Education and Counseling
Available online 4 May 2011.
“Overcoming barriers to information needs may be less dependent on literacy considerations and more dependent on issues that divide across levels of educational attainment.” - excerpt
 
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