Educational level affects risk of cancer and chances of survival

Highly educated Swedish men and women have better chances of surviving various types of cancer than those with a low level of education. At the same time, the highly educated women are more often diagnosed with noninvasive breast cancer. One reason might be that greater numbers of highly educated women take advantage of Sweden’s universal, free program of mammography, suggests researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet."It’s also possible that there are differences in compliance with treatment instructions, in how cancer is detected and evaluated, and in the support