Mortality from breast cancer is higher among low-income women than among the rich

Breast cancer is more likely to die than women with limited financial income, the rich patients, the British scientists. The study included women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in England and Wales from 1986 to 1999. Experts have found that the survival rate of these patients is increasing overall. But one year survival rate after diagnosis was lower in women with low economic income than wealthy patients. Such differences are very interested professionals. Scientists have found that this difference is even more marked in five years. Study of more than 380 thousand women found that after five years of survival among affluent women 6% higher. The study was published in the British Journal of Cancer. According to experts, there are several possible reasons for this trend. Perhaps poor patients from the full treatment and radiotherapy prevented is also the reason the fact that poor women are screened less often, and for this reason the diagnosis is often not made in the early stages of the disease. Scientists believe that there will be other reasons. Need to all possible factors influencing the incidence difference between the rich and the poor, in order to achieve an effective treatment, and maybe to see new benefits, experts say.