Anonymous4 days ago
Rural Americans with cancer travel dramatically farther for treatment than urban patients — often 80 miles or more each way to reach the nearest oncologist, compared with 15 miles in metropolitan areas. Since 2010, 182 rural hospitals have closed and 424 have discontinued chemotherapy services, deepening a crisis in which rural cancer patients face higher mortality rates, greater financial hardship, and compounding barriers based on race, income, and age that the current patchwork of federal programs has failed to resolve.