Where Have We Been With Rural-Urban Cancer Care Disparities and Where Are We Headed?

Abstract

Delivering high-quality cancer care regardless of a patient's place of residence is vital. Lewis-Thames and colleagues 1 analyzed 36 years of data for patients with incident lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database. They compared disease-specific survival for patients residing in rural and urban counties. Rural and urban were defined based on Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC). The authors controlled for several

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