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 …

Abstract “Neighborhoods and health” research has shown that area social factors are
associated with the health outcomes that patients with cancer experience across the cancer …

Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality have been widely documented for several
decades and persist despite advances in receipt of mammography across racial groups …

Cancer mortality rates are higher in rural versus urban areas in the United States, 1, 2
especially for cancers with effective interventions for prevention, early detection, and …

Context: Cancer care requires specialty surgical and medical resources that are less likely to
be found in rural areas. Purpose: To examine the travel patterns and distances of rural and …

Background: National and regional data indicate that breast cancer early detection is low in
Kentucky, especially rural regions, perhaps because access to mammography services can …

The aim was to examine the effect of geographical access to treatment services on cancer
treatment patterns. Records for patients in northern England with breast, colon, rectal, lung …

Purpose Trimodality therapy (chemoradiation and surgery) is the standard of care for stage
II/III rectal cancer but nearly one third of patients do not receive radiation therapy (RT). We …

Background Similarly to several other upper-middle-income countries, there is a major
shortfall in radiotherapy services for the treatment of cancer in Brazil. In this study, we …

Background Travel time to treatment facilities may impede the receipt of guideline-
concordant treatment (GCT) among patients diagnosed with early-stage non-small cell lung …