Certain cancers - Kaposi sarcoma and cancers of the larynx, cervix, penis, and liver - were more likely in the poorest neighbourhoods, while other cancers - melanoma, thyroid, other non-epithelial skin and testis - were more likely in the wealthiest neighbourhoods, the findings showed.
However, areas with higher poverty had lower cancer incidence and higher mortality than areas with lower poverty.
"At first glance, the effects seem to cancel one another out. But the cancers more associated with poverty have lower incidence and higher mortality, and those associated with wealth have higher incidence and lower mortality," said Francis Boscoe of the New York State Cancer Registry in the US.
