Human Biology and Cancer: Four Articles Analytical Essay by Top Papers

The paper examines the study that strove to reveal whether or not biological aging - as measured by age of diagnosis for various common cancers - is socio-economically patterned. The paper explains that it was a cross-sectional analysis of the association between "an area-based measure of material deprivation and age at diagnosis of four common cancers (breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancers); a further analysis, restricted to breast and colorectal cancer, adjusted for stage and grade of cancer at diagnosis" (Adams et al, 2005).