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631. Harvesting Risk: An Ecologic Study of Agricultural Practices and Patterns and Melanoma Incidence in Pennsylvania - Resources
Date: Nov 2025

Examines associations between melanoma incidence, agricultural land use, and herbicide-treated acreage in a 15-county cluster in southern Pennsylvania including both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties, utilizing 2017-2021 PA Cancer Registry data. Discusses how environmental, occupational, and behavioral challenges related to agriculture and cancer incidence are shared among urban and rural communities.

...Cancer Registry data. Discusses how environmental, occupational, and behavioral challenges related to agriculture and cancer...

632. Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology: Proceedings of a Workshop - Resources
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...

633. Associations of Social Deprivation and Oncology Physician Network Vulnerability With Acute Care Utilization in the SEER-Medicare Population - Resources
Date: Nov 2025

Discusses the socioeconomic factors that correlate with acute care utilization among cancer patients, as well as the effect of regional specialist scarcity. Draws from Medicare data on patients with breast, lung, or colorectal cancer who have visited emergency departments or had non-elective hospitalizations and explores correlating social and regional factors, such as sex, rurality, social deprivation index score, and proximity to an oncology physician, among others.

...cancer patients, as well as the effect of regional specialist scarcity. Draws from Medicare data...

634. NCI Geographic Information Science (GIS) Portal for Cancer Research Tobacco Policy Viewer - Resources
Reviewed: Nov 2025

Provides a state-by-state summary of smoke-free laws in workplaces, restaurants, and bars from 1990 through 2020 for the U.S. Includes information on public tobacco policy laws at the county and city levels.

...Cancer Research Tobacco Policy Viewer --- Provides a state-by-state summary of smoke-free laws...

635. Community-Based Screening for Cervical Cancer: A Feasibility Study of Rural Appalachian Women - Resources
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...

636. Racial Misclassification of American Indians and Alaska Natives by Indian Health Service Contract Health Service Delivery Area - Resources
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...

637. Incidence of Solid Tumors Among Pesticide Applicators Exposed to the Organophosphate Insecticide Diazinon in the Agricultural Health Study: An Updated Analysis - Resources
Date: Jul 2015

Presents an analysis of the cancer risk for pesticide applicators detailed in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS). Looks at cancer incidence in applicators from Iowa and North Carolina who reported diazinon usage in their lifetime.

...cancer risk for pesticide applicators detailed in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS). Looks at cancer...

638. Impact of Patient Race and Geographical Factors on Initiation and Adherence to Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy in Medicare Breast Cancer Survivors - Resources
Date: Jun 2017

Study exploring racial and geographical disparities in adjuvant endocrine therapy for female Medicare patients diagnosed between 2007-2011. Features statistics with breakdowns including race or ethnicity, urban or rural residence, age group, and marital status.

...Cancer Survivors --- Study exploring racial and geographical disparities in adjuvant endocrine therapy for female Medicare...

639. Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment in a Rural Community - Resources
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...

640. Introducing the L.A.U.N.C.H Collaborative - Resources
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...