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Date: Feb 2024
Presents a study on patient-sharing networks among multidisciplinary teams treating cancer patients and, specifically, the oncologists hold these networks together as "linchpins". Discusses these linchpin oncologists and evaluates the effect they have on cancer outcomes. Explores the affect this has on patients with a number of variables, including living in a rural area.
...Cancer Institute, 116(2), 230-238 Date 02/2024 Tagged as Access · Cancer · Health workforce supply...
Reviewed: Oct 29, 2024
A community health worker initiative to improve the health of rural Appalachian Kentucky residents who have deficits in health resources and health status, including high levels of cancer, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, and diabetes.
...Cancer Screening Awareness Campaign in Appalachia Kentucky: the Terminate Lung Cancer (TLC) Study . Journal of Cancer...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines collaborative networks and referrals to understand how cancer control and prevention service areas are connected in rural areas. Provides responses from 152 multisector networks that address cancer risk in Missouri and Illinois such as community partners, health departments and facilities, schools, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and more. Discusses collaborations such as exchanging information, promoting services and programs, and development of resources and services, among other themes.
...Cancer Prevention and Control --- Examines collaborative networks and referrals to understand how cancer control and prevention...
Date: May 2019
Study examining rates of cervical cancer treatment for patients in North Carolina, focusing on the role of geographic distance in healthcare disparities. Analyzes data for insured cervical cancer patients from 2004-2013, taken from a state registry. Discusses the differences in time between diagnosis and completion of concurrent chemoradiotherapy between rural and urban patients.
...Cancer Patients --- Study examining rates of cervical cancer treatment for patients in North Carolina, focusing...
Date: Mar 2022
Examines overall cancer mortality in the U.S. by county characteristics such as persistent poverty and rural versus urban location, as well as by isolating race as a potential determinant. Utilizes 1990-1992 and 2014-2018 National Death Index data to analyze how health disparities in cancer mortality have changed over time.
...cancer mortality have changed over time. --- View more Enduring Cancer Disparities by Persistent Poverty, Rurality...
Date: Jun 2024
Literature review on racial and ethnic disparities in cancer burden, including discussion of cancer incidence, mortality, screening, access, and knowledge among underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in rural areas. Analyzes 30 studies from 2004-2023.
...cancer burden, including discussion of cancer incidence, mortality, screening, access, and knowledge among underrepresented racial...
Date: Mar 2013
Analyzes the self-reported health status of U.S. cancer survivors for disparities by rural versus urban residence. Includes rural and urban data on demographics, overall health, psychological distress, and non-cancer co-morbidities.
...Cancer Survivors --- Analyzes the self-reported health status of U.S. cancer survivors for disparities by rural...
Date: Apr 2022
Explores disparities in survival rates of 111,627 epithelial ovarian cancer patients in rural, urban, and metropolitan areas of the United States, based on data from the 2004-2016 National Cancer Database (NCDB). Includes demographic information of patients such as age, race, distance to nearest hospital, and more, as well as tables showing survival rates based on geographic locations.
...Cancer, 32(4), 540-546 Date 04/2022 Tagged as Cancer · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences...
Reviewed: Mar 2025
Provides access to state and county cancer statistics and trends, with data by demographic group and cancer type. Also covers screening and risk factors.
...cancer type. Also covers screening and risk factors. Organization National Cancer Institute Tagged as Cancer...
Date: Jun 2018
Analyzes Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results–Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (SEER‐CAHPS) survey data for rural and urban Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older diagnosed with breast, lung, colorectal, or prostate cancer between 1998 and 2013 to explore associations between patient residence at cancer diagnosis and patient ratings of access to care.
...cancer between 1998 and 2013 to explore associations between patient residence at cancer diagnosis and patient...