Major ethnic group differences in breast cancer screening uptake in Scotland are not extinguished by adjustment for indices of geographical residence, area deprivation, long-term illness and education.

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Published in Br J Cancer on March 13, 2012

Authors

N Bansal1, R S Bhopal, M F C Steiner, D H Brewster, Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study

Author Affiliations

1: Edinburgh Ethnicity Health Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. n.bansal@ed.ac.uk

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