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Date: May 2018
Summarizes workshop proceedings and discussion to examine how to improve cancer patients' healthcare services navigation. Discusses current models of patient navigation programs, including programs in rural areas. Covers lessons learned, policy changes, and opportunities to improve cancer patient healthcare services navigation. Document is free to download after providing an email address.
...cancer patients' healthcare services navigation. Discusses current models of patient navigation programs, including programs in rural...
Date: Aug 2025
Presents a study exploring the efficacy of community navigators, such as 211, to help alleviate unmet social needs and change the likelihood of cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance of follow-up care in the treatment and prevention of cancer and the barriers individuals with unmet social needs face to receive it. Explores rurality as a potential barrier.
...cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance...
Date: Mar 2024
Compares rates of mammogram screening among screening-eligible women with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) using 2012-2019 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data. Compares screening rates of Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare enrollees, with data breakdowns by race and ethnicity, rural versus urban status, and more. Identifies potential risks related to over-screening.
...Cancer Screening among Medicare Advantage Enrollees with Dementia --- Compares rates of mammogram screening among screening...
Date: Oct 2013
Results from five focus groups designed to raise awareness, promote discourse, identify barriers, and develop culturally relevant education strategies related to screening and early detection.
...Cancer Screening Among American Indian Men Aged 50 or Older, Kansas and Missouri, 2006-2008 --- Results...
Date: Jul 2025
Webinar introducing the ACS NCCRT Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening in Rural Communities Best Practices Guidebook. Includes an overview of CRC disparities in rural communities and offers guidance for organizations working to improve CRC screening rates in their communities. Highlights successes of CRC screening programs in Alaska and Arizona administered by the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation and Mariposa Community Health Center.
...Cancer Society National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (ACS NCCRT) Cancer · Health disparities · Health screening · Planning and strategy...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Provides an overview of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's efforts to promote human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in rural areas. Includes newsletters, upcoming events, meeting recordings, and program action steps. See Education and Training Resources for HPV profiles of selected states, including comparisons of HPV vaccination rates among 13-17 year olds by level of urbanicity.
...Cancers in Rural Communities --- Provides an overview of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
Date: Jan 2023
Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across geographic and sociodemographic domains before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizes 2019 and 2020 data sources to examine hospital characteristics by telehealth and oncology services, with information on hospital ownership, number of hospital beds, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) status, presence of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) co-located at hospital, and more. Includes availability of telehealth, oncology, and hospital services broken down by county; HPSA status; income, average age, and race/ethnicity of residents; ratio of population to primary care physicians; rural noncore, rural micropolitan, or urban status; and more.
...Cancer Care in the United States --- Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across...
Date: Jan 2023
Investigates the prevalence of radiotherapy deserts for prostate cancer (PC) and invasive breast cancer (BC) at the county level in the United States. Analyzes physicians to persons at risk (PPR) and use to persons at risk (UPR) according to sex, race/ethnicity, poverty level, and metro versus nonmetro county. Includes U.S. maps depicting death and incidence rate hot zones, high PPR density, high UPR density, and more.
...cancer (PC) and invasive breast cancer (BC) at the county level in the United States...
Reviewed: Jan 2025
Contains cancer incidence and mortality data for a number of states, with the option to view data by county, cancer type, gender, race and ethnicity, and in most cases, rural/urban geography.
...cancer type, gender, race and ethnicity, and in most cases, rural/urban geography. --- Cancer-Rates.info Contains cancer...
Date: Jun 2024
Analyzes frequency of receiving a recent Papanicolau (Pap) test among rural and urban women aged 21 to 65, using Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data from 2019, 2020, and 2022. Provides screening rate data comparisons by year and by demographic category, including race and ethnicity, age, insurance status, educational level, and more.
...Cancer Screening Rates among Rural and Urban Females, From 2019 to 2022 --- Analyzes frequency of receiving...
