The health care system in the United States (US) is a fragmented system with little
coordination between primary care and specialty care. Along the cancer care continuum …

Disparities in breast cancer outcomes between rural and urban populations are of great
interest as environmental, social, and technological processes unevenly affect rural and …

Area of residence influences clinical outcomes due to its impact on access to and quality of
care. For breast cancer patients, place of residence influences screening, stage, treatment …

Cancer occurs in specific places and spaces, each of which have identifiable geographic
coordinates, characterized by unique natural, built and social characteristics, all of which …

Few studies of breast cancer treatment have focused on the Northern Plains of the United
States, an area with a high mastectomy rate. This study examined the association between …

Neighborhoods are consistently and independently associated with breast cancer mortality.
The majority of studies on neighborhoods and breast cancer mortality have examined …

Despite available demographic data on the factors that contribute to breast cancer mortality
in large population datasets, local patterns are often overlooked. Such local information …

In recent years, the application of spatial analysis in the context of epidemiologic
surveillance and research has increased exponentially. Today, the use of spatial statistics …

This chapter traces how the growth of geographic information science and the potential for
using the accompanying geospatial tools and data to advance our understanding of disease …

Importance Patient factors help explain disparities in breast cancer treatments and
outcomes. Objective To determine the extent to which geospatial variation in initial breast …