As a result of the challenges unique to rural cancer care—workforce shortages, travel distances, insurance obstacles, and clinical trial access—patients with cancer living in rural areas are more often diagnosed at later stages, experience higher cancer-related mortality, and have worse survivorship outcomes. On this episode of CANCER BUZZ, learn more about the challenges to care delivery faced by oncology in rural settings, and some of the innovative ways that they are working to better serve this at-risk patient population.

 

Guest:

Jack Hensold, MD, Medical Oncologist, Bozeman Health Cancer Center; President, Montana State Oncology Society

 

Related Content:

• Availability of Cancer Treatment in Montana: Where are the Gaps? by Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services (DPHHS)
• “A Model Rural Chemotherapy Program,” by Rhonda Roesler et al.
• “Collaboration: The Key to Creating Value-Based Cancer Care in Rural Communities,” by Matthew R. Sturm and Katherine Liljedahl Ye
• “Wheels Up: Bringing Lung Cancer Education and Screening to Rural Patients,” by Derek Raghavan et al.
• “Reaching Out: Cancer Program-Community Collaborations for Health Equity”

 

The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s)/faculty member(s) and do not reflect the official policy or position of their employer(s) or the Association of Community Cancer Centers.