“..Your chances of surviving cancer are improving – unless you are poor or Maori.
A new Otago University/Health Ministry report shows that, while survival rates for cancer are improving nationally – 32 per cent from 1991 to 2004 – the mortality rate for Maori is 29 per cent higher than that of non-Maori.
Inequalities in survival were also seen between different income levels.
People diagnosed with cancer in the lowest third of household incomes had on average a 12 per cent higher death rate than people on high incomes…”
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