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 …

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

More than half of the cancer occurring today is preventable by applying knowledge that we
already have. Tobacco, obesity, and physical inactivity are the modifiable causes of cancer …

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 …

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 …

Most cases of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) arise as a recurrence of a previously treated
early breast cancer. Distinct from recurrent MBC is de novo MBC (dnMBC), which describes …

Neighborhoods encompass complex environments comprised of unique economic,
physical, and social characteristics that have a profound impact on the residing individual's …

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 purpose of this study was to examine rural‐urban differences in access to
breast cancer screening in a predominantly rural Midwestern state in the United States …