Significant association between income and survival after surgery for lung cancer

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/ki-sab062220.php


News Release 2-Jul-2020
Karolinska Institutet


Patients with low income have a higher risk of death following surgery for lung cancer compared with patients with high income. The association remains even after taking prevalence of common comorbidities, and other factors that are known to influence the risk of death, into account. This is according to a study published in the journal Thorax by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

There are known survival differences in the general population that are related to differences in socioeconomic status. Moreover, the gap in life expectancy seems to be increasing and can to a large part be explained by differences in deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancers.

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