When coverage was assessed for all deprivation quintiles rather than just the least and most deprived groups, a clear deprivation gradient was found for all reviews except the 10 day review for each cohort (figure 2).
The estimation of the deprivation gap in survival (the fitted difference in survival between the most affluent and most deprived groups) was dependent on the assumptions made regarding the deprivation gradient in background mortality.
The fitted deprivation gap in survival between the most affluent and most deprived groups was estimated using variance-weighted linear regression.
As a result, the deprivation gap in survival between the most affluent and the most deprived groups increased steadily.
The deprivation gap in survival between the most affluent and the most deprived groups is approximately 4%.
A significant deprivation gap in survival exists between the most affluent and the most deprived groups with endometrial cancer of ∼4% based on data from England and Wales with survival lagging 2 6% behind Europe (Kitchener, 2008).
Among men, the slight but significant decline in 5-year survival (Table 1) was particularly marked among the most affluent groups, leading to an actual reversal of the deprivation gradient during the 1990s, with 5-year survival in the most deprived groups some 3% higher than in the most affluent groups among men diagnosed during 1996 1999 (Table 2).
Although survival has improved in all socioeconomic groups, the deprivation gap in survival between women in the most affluent and the most deprived groups has not narrowed; if anything, the data suggest that it widened slightly during the late 1990s.
Overall, 1-year survival rose in both sexes, both for good-prognosis and poor-prognosis cancers, within each of the three periods 1996 2000, 2001 2003 and 2004 2006, and for all deprivation categories (Table 3, Figure 2A: only the most affluent and the most deprived groups are plotted).
In areas with poor air quality, 32% of people living there were from the most deprived groups, versus 7% from the least deprived.
But he emphasised among the linking strains throughout these communities was poverty: "British Muslims are among the most deprived groups in the country".
