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Azienda Ospedaliera Nazionale“SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo”Working Paper of Public Healthnr. 7/2012Title: Breast cancer and socio-economic factorsAuthors: Anees B. Chagpar; 1 Mario Coccia; 2 *Type: Original ArticleJEL classification: O33; O50; H51;Keywords: Breast Cancer, Oral Contraceptive Pill, GDP per capita, Computed Tomography,Wealth.AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study is twofold – on the one hand, to analyze the relationshipbetween incidence of breast cancer, income per capita and medical equipmentacross countries; after that, the study here discusses the drivers of the incidence ofbreast cancer across countries in order to pinpoint differences and similarities.Methods: The indicators used are incidence of breast cancer based on Age-standardized rate(ASW); Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita by purchasing power parity(current international $); computed tomography (CT) for cancer diagnosis. Data1YALE UNIVERSITY -- THE BREAST CENTER -- SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL AT YALE-NEW HAVENYale School of Medicine, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06510 USAPhone: 203-200-1518- Fax: 203-200-2503Email: anees.chagpar@yale.edu2 CNR -- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY & GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAddress: CERIS -- Institute for Economic Research on Firm and GrowthCollegio Carlo Alberto - via Real Collegio, n. 30 - 10024 Moncalieri (Torino) - ITALYTel.: +39 011 68 24 925 - Fax : +39 011 68 24 966email: m.coccia@ceris.cnr.it* Mario Coccia thanks the staff of Ceris-CNR (Italy), Yale University and Georgia Institute of Technology(USA) for main research support. In addition, he gratefully acknowledges financial support from the CNR -1