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Reviewed: Jun 2025
Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes. Allows users to compare rates by county, rural or urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by Health Resources and Services Administration regions, and by states.
...Cancer Rates for the Rural Delta Region --- Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people...
Date: Oct 2025
Explores the geographic and socioeconomic factors that correlate with the higher rates and worse outcomes for head and neck squamous cell carcinomas among veterans compared to civilians. Breaks down data by socioeconomic factors, such as marital status, unemployment, and service connection, among other factors, as well as rurality, travel distance, and drive time.
...Cancer --- Explores the geographic and socioeconomic factors that correlate with the higher rates and worse...
Date: Feb 2025
Discusses evidence-based interventions (EBIs) that are implemented by rural clinics to improve human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake. Analyzes the American Cancer Society (ACS) HPV Vaccinating Adolescents against Cancers Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative and reports on interview feedback from participating rural clinic staff regarding EBI effectiveness.
...Cancer Society (ACS) HPV Vaccinating Adolescents against Cancers Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative and reports on interview...
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...
Date: 2020
Describes the Linking & Amplifying User-Centered Networks through Connected Health (L.A.U.N.C.H.) demonstration project, based in Appalachian Kentucky and aimed at preventing cancer and removing obstacles faced by cancer patients in rural and underserved areas, through improvements in broadband access.
...cancer and removing obstacles faced by cancer patients in rural and underserved areas, through improvements...
Date: Jan 2016
Examines the costs of providing genetic counseling in person to providing it via telephone for primarily rural areas in Utah. Focuses on women with genetic mutations related to a high risk of breast or ovarian cancer as part of the clinical trial, Bridging Geographic Barriers: Remote Cancer Genetic Counseling for Rural Women.
...cancer as part of the clinical trial, Bridging Geographic Barriers: Remote Cancer Genetic Counseling for Rural...
Date: Nov 2023
Examines prostate screening from 2012 to 2020 among men living in Florida. Utilizes the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to analyze prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening percentages by county for men aged 18 or older. Discusses screening disparities related to Black men.
...Cancer Screening and Strategies, Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2012–2020 --- Examines prostate screening...
Date: Jun 2014
An analysis to determine the extent of racial misclassification of American Indians and Alaska Natives regarding cancer and all-cause mortality data by Indian Health Service (IHS) Contract Health Service Delivery Area (CHSDA) using 3 data sources: IHS-National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), IHS-National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)/Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, and National Longitudinal Mortality Study (NLMS).
...cancer and all-cause mortality data by Indian Health Service (IHS) Contract Health Service Delivery...
Date: Oct 2018
Examines the use of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT), an alternative treatment option compared to whole-breast radiation therapy (WBRT), for patients receiving breast-conserving surgery at an academic institution in Iowa. Includes data on patients receiving IORT and WBRT by age, distance traveled to treatment facility, postoperative outcomes, and more.
...Cancer Treatment in a Rural Community --- Examines the use of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT), an alternative...
Date: Nov 2015
Describes a community-based screening program for rural Appalachian women that examines the women's comfort levels and experience self-collecting swabs for HPV testing, whether nurse-guided patient navigation increases the odds of women receiving a traditional Pap test after HPV screening, and explores the hypothesis that women testing positive for oncogenic HPV would be more likely to have a Pap test than those testing negative.
...Cancer: A Feasibility Study of Rural Appalachian Women --- Describes a community-based screening program for rural...