Figure 1.
Trends in invasive breast cancer incidence and mortality, Ireland, 1994–2010 (European age-standardized rates).
Table 1.
Case numbers, incidence and summary of patient and tumour characteristics variables (those showing significant variation) by area-based deprivation stratum for female breast cancer in Ireland, 1999–2008.a
Figure 2.
Relative risks for breast cancer treatment by deprivation stratum, Ireland, 1999–2008: age-adjusted (black symbols) and fully adjusted (grey).
Adjusted for diagnosis cohort, age-group, HSE area of residence, T, N and M categories of stage, tumour grade, method of presentation, smoking status, marital status (except hormone therapy), tumour morphology, hormone receptor status and HER2 status (except radiotherapy), also surgery type (for radiotherapy only).
Figure 3.
Five-year (a) and ten-year (b) cause-specific survival of female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1999–2008: by deprivation stratum, all ages (age-standardized) and by diagnosis age.
Figure 4.
Hazard ratios for cause-specific mortality by deprivation stratum for female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1999–2008: comparison of models from A (age-stratified) to D (fully adjusted).
See Table 2 for further details of the models.
Table 2.
Hazard ratios for cause-specific mortality by deprivation stratum for female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1999–2008.
Table 3.
Further details of model C (Table 2): other patient and tumour factors influencing breast cancer survival (in a model assessing the influence of area-based deprivation status), 1999–2008.
Figure 5.
Five-year cause-specific survival (age-standardized) and age-adjusted mortality hazard ratios for female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1994–2008: by deprivation stratum and diagnosis cohort.
Figure 6.
Hazard ratios for breast cancer mortality by deprivation stratum, Ireland, 1999–2008: by (a) age of diagnosis and (age-adjusted) by (b) region of residence, (c) Charlson Index of comorbidity, (d) TNM 5th-edition stage, (e) method of presentation, and (f) surgical and hormonal treatment.
Trends by deprivation were less heterogeneous for other subgroups.