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Date: Feb 2014
Compares prostate cancer treatment options and treatment rates for early-stage prostate cancer patients living in rural and urban areas in 10 states. Includes 4 levels of rurality in the analysis, along with patient demographics, cancer characteristics, and provider access.
...Cancer Gain Access to All Treatment Choices? --- Compares prostate cancer treatment options and treatment rates...
Date: Aug 2022
Examines collaborative networks who work to implement cancer prevention strategies in rural areas. Reports on interviews conducted in 2020 with 32 Illinois and Missouri public health and social service agencies who work in rural areas with high poverty and cancer rates. Discusses needs and challenges in cancer control work in rural areas, as identified by interagency networks.
...cancer rates. Discusses needs and challenges in cancer control work in rural areas, as identified...
Date: Jun 2025
Provides cancer incidence rates from 2018-2022 for individual counties in Illinois, utilizing data from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois State Cancer Registry. Includes data and statistics broken down by sex, race, ethnicity, and cancer site.
...cancer site. --- Illinois County Cancer Statistics Review Incidence, 2018-2022 Provides cancer incidence rates from...
Date: 2025
Examines travel burden to surgical cancer care and its relationship to rurality, bypassing of the nearest surgical site, and mortality rates. Analyzes 2016-218 data of 211,025 Medicare beneficiaries with cancer and includes breakdowns for type of cancer, surgery versus no surgery, patient demographics, patient health conditions, travel time, mortality rates, and location of metro, micro, or small town/rural.
...Cancer Treatment for Urban and Rural Oncology Patients --- Examines travel burden to surgical cancer care...
Date: Sep 2025
Analyzes rural and urban and age-based differences in cancer survivorship research participation among 1,679 cancer survivors who recently received diagnosis or treatment at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Provides data on likelihood of participation by mail, Internet, or telephone, and discusses the importance of improving access to research participation among rural and older cancer survivors.
...cancer survivorship research participation among 1,679 cancer survivors who recently received diagnosis or treatment...
Date: Jun 2026
Examines the impact of rurality and traveling for care on early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) survival. Utilizes 2010-2022 National Cancer Database data to analyze 404,440 individuals for EOCRC compared to average-onset colorectal cancer (AOCRC), with additional breakdowns according to distance traveled for care, CRC type, rural versus urban location, survival, and undergoing surgery.
...Cancer --- Examines the impact of rurality and traveling for care on early-onset colorectal cancer...
Date: May 2023
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.
...Cancer Services in the United States --- Discusses cancer healthcare access for rural residents and factors...
Date: Apr 2022
Examines primary bone and joint cancers between 1975 and 2016 to understand long-term changes in their occurrence. Utilizes the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database to focus on cancer occurrence in Iowa and the related correlation between cancers and rural populations, farmland size, and residential radon levels. Includes demographic data of Iowa regions and their corresponding age-adjusted incidence (AAIR) and mortality (AAMR) rates.
...cancer occurrence in Iowa and the related correlation between cancers and rural populations, farmland size...
Date: Feb 2025
Discusses how lung cancer screening (LCS) is coordinated across veteran affairs (VA) and non-VA healthcare systems. Analyzes 6 VA medical centers with LCS programs and provides feedback from semi-structured interviews with related LCS program and healthcare professionals. Discusses challenges with LCS coordination across the care continuum, with commentary specific to rural veterans.
...Cancer": Challenges Coordinating Lung Cancer Screening Across Healthcare Systems --- Discusses how lung cancer screening (LCS) is coordinated...
Date: Feb 2022
Presents an overview of data on cancer incidence and mortality, risk factors, screening, treatment, and outcomes by race and ethnicity. Discusses factors contributing to racial cancer disparities, including inequities in health coverage and access to care, and social and economic factors, among others. Includes data on cancer disparities in rural communities.
...Cancer Outcomes, Screening, and Treatment --- Presents an overview of data on cancer incidence and mortality...