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161. Hospital Accreditation Status and Treatment Differences among Black Patients with Colon Cancer - Resources
Date: Aug 2024

Examines likelihood of receiving guideline-concordant care and risk of mortality for Black patients with colon cancer at Commission on Cancer (CoC) accredited hospitals relative to non-CoC accredited hospitals. Utilizes 2019-2020 United States Cancer Statistics database data. Includes data on the association between patient characteristics, including rurality, and attendance at accredited versus nonaccredited hospitals.

...cancer at Commission on Cancer (CoC) accredited hospitals relative to non-CoC accredited hospitals. Utilizes...

162. Cross-State Travel for Cancer Care and Implications for Telehealth Reciprocity - Resources
Date: Feb 2025

Examines the extent to which Medicare beneficiaries with breast, colon, lung, or pancreatic cancer travel out of state to receive cancer services between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2020. Compares cross-state travel by cancer site, service type, and patient rurality. Describes the potential implications of these findings for telehealth policies and reciprocity.

...cancer travel out of state to receive cancer services between January 1, 2017, and December...

163. Nurse-Directed Coordination of Cancer Survivorship Care in a Tribal Primary Care Clinic - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

Examines the feasibility of a nurse cancer care coordinator intervention focused on improving cancer care at a tribally-operated primary care clinic in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Provides data on survivorship care plans, cancer-related distress, time spent on coordination activities, and other aspects of program implementation via a trial utilizing data of 23 American Indian intervention participants.

...cancer care coordinator intervention focused on improving cancer care at a tribally-operated primary care...

164. Mitigating Cancer Disparities Through an Innovative Navigation Program - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Describes the development and implementation of a population health navigation program to reduce barriers to cancer care in underserved communities in Western North Carolina and Northwest South Carolina. Provides data on rural program participants, including barriers to cancer care access, program impact on transportation needs and food insecurity, and rates of participation in clinical cancer research. Also covers Black, Hispanic, and adolescent and young adult program participants.

...cancer research. Also covers Black, Hispanic, and adolescent and young adult program participants. --- Mitigating Cancer...

165. Pesticide Exposure and Incident Thyroid Cancer Among Male Pesticide Applicators in Agricultural Health Study - Resources
Date: Jan 2021

Analyzed 53,096 male pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina from the Agricultural Health Study (AHS) for incidences of thyroid cancer. Participants were surveyed at enrollment in the study between 1993 and 1997 and then interviewed again between 1999 and 2005. Data show incidences of thyroid cancer with a break down of age, state, production type, and more. Also shows association between thyroid cancer risk and long-term use of pesticides.

...cancer risk and long-term use of pesticides. --- Pesticide Exposure and Incident Thyroid Cancer Among...

166. Rural Skin Cancer Patients Tend to 'Slip Through the Cracks.' These Programs Are Trying to Change That - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 28, 2026

A mobile unit, residency track, and training program for providers are trying to improve dermatology care in rural areas. - The Rural Monitor

...cancers that were ten times that size" — cancers that were "much more difficult to get out." Follow...

167. Terminate Lung Cancer (TLC) Study - A Mixed-Methods Population Approach to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Awareness and Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Eastern Kentucky - Resources
Date: Feb 2017

Reports on a study of a community awareness intervention supporting low dose computed tomography (LDCT) cancer screening in two high-risk regions of Eastern Appalachia Kentucky. Rates of awareness and LDCT screening in the intervention regions were compared to a control region where the intervention had not been implemented.

...Cancer (TLC) Study - A Mixed-Methods Population Approach to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Awareness and Low-Dose...

168. Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations — United States, 2013–2017 - Resources
Date: Sep 2020

Examines cancers associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV) among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. Includes data by sex, cancer type, and region. Also includes data by cancer type for AI/AN compared to other populations.

...cancer type, and region. Also includes data by cancer type for AI/AN compared to other...

169. Process for Determining the Cancer Burden of the Hopi Tribe - Resources
Date: Nov 2010

Describes collaborative and technical processes used by the Hopi Tribe, University of Arizona researchers, and the Arizona Cancer Registry to provide Hopi-specific cancer data from 1995-2005. Includes socioeconomic data and breakdowns by type of cancer.

...Cancer Registry to provide Hopi-specific cancer data from 1995-2005. Includes socioeconomic data and breakdowns...

170. Challenges of Using Nationally Representative, Population-Based Surveys to Assess Rural Cancer Disparities - Resources
Date: Dec 2019

Examines research methods in studies of rural cancer-related health behaviors and disparities, exploring the definition of "rural" in population-based national surveys, complications for rural cancer studies, and possible solutions to improve survey accuracy. Discusses prominent data sources, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), and the National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), and examines use of these data sources in 68 published studies.

...Cancer Disparities --- Examines research methods in studies of rural cancer-related health behaviors and disparities...