Hazard ratios for cause-specific mortality by deprivation stratum for female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1999–2008.

(See Table 2 for fuller details of Model C.).aModel A: stratified by age (to allow for non-proportional hazards).bModel B: as model A but also stratified for T, N and M categories of stage.cModel C: as model B but also stratified for tumour grade, and adjusted for method of presentation, smoking status, region of residence, diagnosis year, tumour morphology and hormone receptor status; standard errors adjusted for clustering by region of residence; marital status and HER2 status excluded as they did not significantly contribute to model-fit); Charlson Index of co-morbidity (available for 82% of cases 2002–2008) excluded as it did not contribute significantly to model-fit.dModel D: as model C but also adjusted for treatments within 12 months after diagnosis: breast surgery (mastectomy, BCS, or none); radiotherapy (month of treatment, or none); chemotherapy & other non-hormonal medical oncology (month of treatment, or none); hormone therapy (median, none); any tumour-directed treatment (yes, no); regional lymph-node excision/biopsy (yes/no). Time to surgical treatment or to first tumour-directed treatment did not improve model fit further.* PHazard ratios for cause-specific mortality by deprivation stratum for female breast cancer patients, Ireland, 1999–2008.