Making the case for investment in rural cancer control: An analysis of rural cancer incidence, mortality, and funding trends

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 992-997

  Blake, Kelly D ^a   Moss, Jennifer L ^a   Gaysynsky, Anna ^a   Srinivasan, Shobha ^a   Croyle, Robert T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FOLLOW UP; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INVESTMENT; KIDNEY CANCER; LEATHER INDUSTRY; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MORTALITY RATE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; TESTIS CANCER; TOBACCO USE; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VACCINATION; WART VIRUS; CANCER REGISTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85022324702     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0092     Document Type: Review

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