The number of cancer survivors continues to increase in the United States due to the growth
and aging of the population as well as advances in early detection and treatment. To assist …

Objective To determine whether rural Medicare FFS beneficiaries are more likely to be
admitted to an urban hospital in 2018 than in 2010. Data Sources We combined data from …

Background Disparities in colon cancer care and outcomes by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic
status (SES), and insurance are well recognized; however, the extent to which inequalities …

BACKGROUND: The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Coalition for Quality in Geriatric
Surgery (CQGS) identified standards of surgical care for the growing, vulnerable population …

Introduction To analyze the cancer burden in the United States, researchers are relying on
the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. Our objective was to …

Purpose While limited resources can make high‐quality, comprehensive, coordinated
cancer care provision challenging in rural settings, rural cancer patients often rely on local …

Background Rural patients experience worse cancer survival outcomes than urban patients
despite similar incidence rates, due in part to significant barriers to accessing quality cancer …

Importance The National Cancer Database (NCDB) is an invaluable and widely used
resource for cancer research, but the current state of representation of different racial and …

Objective: Rurality is associated with higher incidence and higher disease-specific mortality
for most cancers. Outcomes for rural and ultrarural (“frontier”) patients with thyroid cancer are …

Purpose To examine racial–ethnic variation in adherence to established quality metrics
(NCCN guidelines and ASCO quality metrics) for breast cancer, accounting for individual …