image: Association of lower morbidity or mortality with higher community socioeconomic status.
Credit: Hiroto Narimatsu, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Five common cancers (lung, stomach, colorectal, liver, and breast) occur more often in communities with low employment rates or low incomes, per analysis of 16 years of data on Japanese adults
Article URL: http://plos.io/4envdYN
Article title: Association between socioeconomic background and cancer: An ecological study using cancer registry and various community socioeconomic status indicators in Kanagawa, Japan
Author countries: Japan
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Association between socioeconomic background and cancer: An ecological study using cancer registry and various community socioeconomic status indicators in Kanagawa, Japan
Article Publication Date
9-Jul-2025
COI Statement
NO authors have competing interests.