Background Access to healthcare is a poorly defined construct, with insufficient
understanding of differences in facilitators and barriers between US urban versus rural …

Cancer care disparities among rural populations are increasingly documented and may be
worsening, likely because of the impact of rurality on access to state-of-the-art cancer …

Abstract/Synopsis: Rural cancer patients face many challenges in receiving care, including
limited availability of cancer treatments and cancer support providers (oncologists, social …

Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have historically had few options
and faced extremely poor prognoses if their disease progressed after standard-of-care …

Background Greater travel time to cancer care has been identified as a potential barrier to
care as well as associated with worse health outcomes. While rural cancer patients have …

Purpose: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2007 workforce report
projected US oncologist shortages by 2020. Intervening years have witnessed shifting …

Background and Objectives The density of neurologists within a given geographic region
varies greatly across the United States. We aimed to measure patient travel distance and …

The purpose of this article is to describe how a mixed methods approach was employed to
acquire a better understanding of Black male student athletes' experiences at a historically …

ABSTRACT Since the Dartmouth Hospital Service Areas (HSAs) were proposed three
decades ago, there has been a large body of work using the unit in examining the …

Purpose The cancer survivor population is projected to increase to 22.2 million by 2030,
requiring improved collaboration between oncology and primary care practices (PCP). PCPs …