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Date: Nov 2025
Details an open-access Rural-Urban Community Area (RUCA) tool to standardize patients' geographic coding in cancer disparities research by integrating RUCA codes with census tract and electronic health record system data. Provides data on the tool's application, utilizing 2023 cancer registry data provided by Wake Forest Cancer Center in North Carolina.
...cancer registry data provided by Wake Forest Cancer Center in North Carolina. --- Leveraging the Rural...
Date: Nov 2024
Examines rural-urban differences in stage of diagnosis for five common cancers in California, utilizing 2015-2019 California Cancer Registry data. Breaks down data by sex and other demographics. Discusses access to screening and other aspects of cancer care in rural areas.
...cancers in California, utilizing 2015-2019 California Cancer Registry data. Breaks down data by sex and other...
Date: Nov 2024
Examines trends in up-to-date cancer screening in rural and urban populations, utilizing 2018, 2020, and 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. Identifies geographic disparities in screening by cancer type, with data on breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers.
...cancer type, with data on breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. --- Rural-Urban Disparities and Trends...
Date: Aug 2017
Identifies counties in the U.S. with higher rates of lung cancer mortality and related community-level factors, including rurality, socioeconomic status, level of particulate matter pollution, and access to healthcare. Includes a map showing lung cancer mortality clusters and a "lung cancer mortality belt" from eastern Oklahoma through central Appalachia.
...cancer mortality clusters and a "lung cancer mortality belt" from eastern Oklahoma through central Appalachia...
Date: Jun 1, 2022
Nuclear weapons testing from 1945 to 1962 and uranium mining from 1943 to 1971 exposed workers and community members living near the mines or testing sites to harmful levels of radiation that can lead to cancer and other illnesses. Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP) grants help healthcare organizations provide screenings, referrals for medical treatment, and other services to this population. Two grantees, the Navajo Area RESEP and the Southwestern Utah RESEP, share their stories. - The Rural Monitor
...cancer and other illnesses. Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP) grants help healthcare organizations...
Reviewed: Jan 2026
Provides interactive Iowa cancer data on 48 specific zones, made up by combining county data. Includes state versus zone data comparisons, as well as cancer data presented by time period, type of cancer, sex, race/ethnicity, education, poverty, insurance status, and percentage living in a rural area.
...Cancer Zones Map --- Provides interactive Iowa cancer data on 48 specific zones, made up by combining...
Date: Nov 2018
Examines the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries' public use dataset to compare rural and urban population-based cancer incidence rates from 2009-2013 and trends from 1995-2013. Explores factors associated with rural cancer disparities, including demographic, geographic, and socioeconomic characteristics as well as exposure to carcinogens, like tobacco and HPV.
...Cancer Registries' public use dataset to compare rural and urban population-based cancer incidence rates...
Date: Jan 2024
Evaluates 5-year colorectal cancer (CRC) survival rates in Georgia by county-level rurality and CRC screening rate, utilizing 2004-2010 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program data. Discusses rural-urban CRC mortality disparities, and describes the influence of CRC screening on mortality.
...Cancer Screening Rates on Colorectal Cancer Survival in the State of Georgia: Does County-Level...
Date: Jan 2024
Examines the relationship between colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, 5-year CRC survival rates, and rurality in Georgia, utilizing 2004-2010 SEER data. Discusses patient characteristics associated with living in low-screening areas and impacts of screening on rural CRC mortality.
...Cancer Screening Rates on Colorectal Cancer Survival in the State of Georgia: Does County‐Level...
Date: 2018
Examines Utah Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) data to describe smoking-adjusted lung cancer rates between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan counties by indoor radon levels, sex, and cancer stage. Compares lung cancer rates between Utah and all SEER sites. Includes statistics of nonmetropolitan and metropolitan Utah counties by smoking prevalence, education, income, and more.
...cancer rates between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan counties by indoor radon levels, sex, and cancer stage...