Policy Recommendations for Improving Rural Cancer Services in the United States

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Discusses cancer healthcare access for rural residents and factors in access challenges. Discusses rural physician recruitment, facility closures, reimbursement, data gathering, and graduate medical education. Offers policy recommendations for incentivizing and increasing the rural cancer care workforce as well as gathering cancer-related data.

Adrienne B. Lent, Daniel Derksen, Elizabeth T. Jacobs, Leila Barraza, Elizabeth A. Calhoun

JCO Oncology Practice, 19(5), 288-294

05/2023

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Access · Cancer · Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Financial aid for health career education · Graduate medical education · J-1 Visa Waiver · Physicians · Policy · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models · Specialty care · Statistics and data