ASTRO shared a post on X:
“A new study in the Red Journal found that 50 million Americans live in counties without a radiation oncology clinic.
As senior study author Kunal K. Sindhu, MD, explains: ‘The communities most vulnerable to losing radiation oncology access are often the same communities that already have fewer healthcare resources.’
To which Nina Niu Sanford, Assistant Professor and Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology at Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, added:
“Important topic, but 1 q is whether county-level RT availability is an accurate surrogate for pt access.
For ex, DFW spans many counties (Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, etc) and pts routinely receive RT across counties (often min away). Travel time may be more meaningful access metric.”
Other articles about radiation therapy on OncoDaily.