Disparities in the change of cervical cancer mortality rate between urban and rural Chiang Mai in the era of universal health care and the Thai national screening program

Table 2 Characteristics of women targeted by the screening program (age 30–59) in urban and rural Chiang Mai who died of cervical cancer, 2003–2012

	Urban N = 159	Rural N = 222	p-value
Characteristics
Median (IQR) age at diagnosis (year)	48 (45–53)	48 (44–52)	0.661^a
Median (IQR) age at death (year)	51 (46–55)	50 (47–55)	0.905^a
Extent of disease, n(%)			0.102^b
Localized	28 (18)	54 (25)
Regional/ Metastatic	127 (82)	160 (75)

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