Objectives To investigate whether there is an association between differences in travel
time/travel distance to healthcare services and patients' health outcomes and assimilate the …

The burden of travel from a patient's residence to health care providers is an important issue
that can influence access to diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Although several studies …

Cancer is a genetic disorder that results from genetic or epigenetic alterations in the somatic
cells and has abnormal cell growth which may be spread to other body parts. In 2018, 18 …

Purpose Survival from breast cancer is dependent on stage at diagnosis and some evidence
suggests that rural women are more likely than urban women to be diagnosed with …

Purpose Health care access and advanced cancer stage are associated with oncologic
outcomes for numerous common cancers. However, the impact of patient travel distance to …

Importance Married patients with cancer have better cancer-specific survival than unmarried
patients. Increasing the early diagnosis and definitive treatment of cancer among unmarried …

Early cancer detection is fundamental to the promotion of better health in the community, but
disparities remain in the likelihood of cancer being detected at an early stage, some of which …

Advanced stage at diagnosis contributes to low breast cancer survival rates in sub‐Saharan
Africa. Living far from health services is known to delay presentation, but the effect of …

Purpose Rural US adults have increased risk of poor outcomes after cancer, including
increased cancer mortality. Rural–urban differences in health behaviors have been …

The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the effect of marital status on the stage at
diagnosis and survival of female patients with breast and gynecologic cancers. A systematic …