Cancer screening

Affluence affects takeup of breast cancer screening, while it's ethnicity that appears to have more influence over cervical cancer screening uptake, a research report published in the BMJ suggests. Researchers at Oxford University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit used sociodemographic data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to look at uptake rates amongst women aged 40-74 from 2005 to 2007. Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Intelligence Network have also produced a study on cancer incidence and survival by ethnic group.