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Date: Feb 2024
Evaluates cancer disparities in Oklahoma counties using 2016-2020 Oklahoma State Department of Health data, with breakdowns by urban, large rural, and small rural setting. Provides statistics on cancer incidence, specific cancers, mortality, and stage of diagnosis by population group. Highlights concerns related to insurance coverage, cancer screening, and treatment in rural areas.
...Cancer Disparities from Oklahoma Cancer and Vital Records Registries 2016-2020 --- Evaluates cancer disparities in Oklahoma...
Date: Sep 2025
Examines the relationship between risk of second primary cancers (SPCs) and sociodemographic variables among women who have had breast cancer. Utilizes Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data from 721,957 women who are breast cancer survivors to analyze SPC risk by demographics, health status, cancer treatments, and 5 levels of rurality.
...Cancer Risk among Breast Cancer Survivors in the United States --- Examines the relationship between risk...
Date: Nov 2018
Analyzes various cancer registries to determine the usability of these sources in rural cancer surveillance research. Includes data from 2009-2013 on rural and urban cancer incidence rates by cancer site and race/ethnicity.
...Cancer Registry Data for Rural Cancer Surveillance Research in the United States --- Analyzes various cancer...
Date: 2022
Shares insights from a virtual workshop that looked at short- and long-term adjustments to cancer care delivery and cancer research during the pandemic. Includes information on rural and tribal cancer care access. Discusses telehealth for cancer care, both during the pandemic and as a tool to improve access to care going forward.
...Cancer Care and Cancer Research in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop...
Date: Aug 2019
Provides an overview of issues related to cancer in rural areas, including barriers to accessing cancer care. Describes federal programs that support and enhance national and rural cancer control efforts, including funding, and offers policy recommendations. Features statistics on average annual percent change in cancer mortality rates from 2006-2015, with breakdowns by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Includes a U.S. map showing locations of cancer centers that received Rural Cancer Control Supplements grants in 2018.
...cancer centers that received Rural Cancer Control Supplements grants in 2018. --- Examining Rural Cancer Prevention...
Date: May 2023
Examines one-year and five-year cancer survival rates by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan county, further broken down by sex, race/ethnicity, age, and cancer type. Utilizes 2007-2016 Center for Disease Control (CDC) National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) survival data to discuss cancer survival health disparities.
...Cancer Registries (NPCR) survival data to discuss cancer survival health disparities. --- Cancer Survival in the United...
Date: Apr 2022
Examines cancer survivors and caregivers' perceptions toward cancer care in rural Nebraska. Discusses perceptions of community health status, sources of cancer information, cancer diagnosis, care coordination, provider communication and organizational support, and barriers to care, based on focus group data from 20 participants.
...Cancer Care Experiences among Rural Cancer Survivors and Caregivers --- Examines cancer survivors and caregivers' perceptions...
Date: Sep 2025
Analyzes racial and geographic disparities in breast cancer screening modality and 5-year breast cancer survival among older women using 2010-2019 Texas Cancer Registry data. Discusses implications for improving cancer outcomes in rural populations.
...Cancer Detection Modalities and Outcomes among Geriatric Female Cancer Patients --- Analyzes racial and geographic disparities...
Date: Jan 2026
Highlights a study exploring cancer control-focused grants funded by the National Cancer Institute for research opportunities to identify methods to close rural and urban disparities in cancer outcomes. Details rural grants from 2016 to 2024, their healthcare focus, and location of cancer treated.
...Cancer Control: A Portfolio Analysis of Research Funded by the National Cancer Institute, 2016–2024 --- Highlights...
Date: Dec 2014
Examines cancer incidence and mortality data for Alaska Native (AN) people in different categories and varying year ranges from 1970 through 2011, and compares cancer rates for AN and U.S. White populations. Shows that cancer mortality rates among AN people exceeded rates among White people for all cancers combined, for cancers of the lung, stomach, pancreas, kidney, and cervix, and for colorectal cancer.
...cancers of the lung, stomach, pancreas, kidney, and cervix, and for colorectal cancer. --- Cancer Disparities...