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Cancer type different for rich and poor: Study

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According to a recent study, certain cancers are more concentrated in areas with high poverty, while other cancers arise more often in wealthy regions.

Certain cancers like Kaposi sarcoma and cancers of the larynx, cervix, penis, and liver, were more likely in the poorest neighbourhoods, while other cancers – melanoma, thyroid, other non-epithelial skin and testis, were more likely in the wealthiest neighbourhoods, the findings showed.


“At first glance, the effects seem to cancel one another out. But the cancers more associated with poverty have lower incidence and higher mortality, and those associated with wealth have higher incidence and lower mortality,” said Francis Boscoe of the New York State Cancer Registry in the US.


“When it comes to cancer, the poor are more likely to die of the disease while the affluent are more likely to die with the disease,” Boscoe added.

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