Temporal trends show improved breast cancer survival in Australia but widening urban–rural differences

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare & Cancer Australia, 2012 Coleman, 2011, Cancer survival in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, 1995-2007 (the international cancer benchmarking Partnership): an analysis of population-based cancer registry data, Lancet, 377, 127, 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62231-3 Yu, 2012, Conditional survival of cancer patients: an Australian perspective, BMC Cancer, 12, 460, 10.1186/1471-2407-12-460 Yu, 2006, Trends in survival and excess risk of death after diagnosis of cancer in 1980-1996 in New South Wales, Australia, Int J Cancer, 119, 894, 10.1002/ijc.21909 Jong, 2004, Remoteness of residence and survival from cancer in New South Wales, Med J Aust, 180, 618, 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06123.x Yu, 2005, A population-based study from New South Wales, Australia 1996-2001: area variation in survival from colorectal cancer, Eur J Cancer, 41, 2715, 10.1016/j.ejca.2005.05.018 Yu, 2008, Assessing the impact of socio-economic status on cancer survival in New South Wales, Australia 1996-2001, Cancer Causes Control, 19, 1383, 10.1007/s10552-008-9210-1 Yu, 2004, Estimating regional variation in cancer survival: a tool for improving cancer care, Cancer Causes Control, 15, 611, 10.1023/B:CACO.0000036165.13089.e8 2000 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2003 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006 Yu, 2014, Geographic variation in prostate cancer survival in New South Wales, Med J Aust, 200, 586, 10.5694/mja13.11134 Brenner, 2002, Long-term survival rates of cancer patients achieved by the end of the 20th century: a period analysis, Lancet, 360, 1131, 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11199-8 Brenner, 2002, Advanced detection of time trends in long-term cancer patient survival: experience from 50 years of cancer registration in Finland, Am J Epidemiol, 156, 566, 10.1093/aje/kwf071 Dickman, 2004, Regression models for relative survival, Stat Med, 23, 51, 10.1002/sim.1597 Cramb, 2012, Spatial inequalities in colorectal and breast cancer survival: premature deaths and associated factors, Health Place, 18, 1412, 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.07.006 Mitchell, 2006, Rural-urban differences in the presentation, management and survival of breast cancer in Western Australia, Breast, 15, 769, 10.1016/j.breast.2006.04.001 Chowdhury, 2007, A systematic review of the impact of volume of surgery and specialization on patient outcome, Br J Surg, 94, 145, 10.1002/bjs.5714 Craft, 2010, Variation in the management of early breast cancer in rural and metropolitan centres: implications for the organisation of rural cancer services, Breast, 19, 396, 10.1016/j.breast.2010.03.032 Underhill, 2009, Mapping oncology services in regional and rural Australia, Aust J Rural Health, 17, 321, 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2009.01106.x