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Dudley Strategy for Tackling Health Inequalities 2010-15

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Standardised Rate per 100,000 PopulationFigure 7400Directly Standardised Admission Rates from Emergency admissions AllCancers by IMD 2007 National Quintile5-Year Rates, <strong>Dudley</strong> MBC, Males & Females Aged All Ages, 2004-2008350300250200<strong>15</strong>0100500Levels of emergency admissions <strong>for</strong> cancer reflect that patients may not be beingdiagnosed or treated at an early stage of their cancer. Thus it may be an indicator oflate presentation, late diagnosis and entry to care not through primary care. Patientsfrom deprived areas, older people and women are more likely to be admitted asemergencies.124

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