Shane Jacobson, Chief Executive Officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Here’s a hard truth: in the U.S., where you live is playing a bigger role in whether you survive cancer.
A new American Cancer Society (ACS) study shows the cancer burden has shifted from urban to rural communities, with the mortality gap continuing to widen. Not because cancer behaves differently there – but because access to care does.
Fewer screenings. Fewer specialists. Longer distances. Less support after treatment. Those gaps add up.
That’s why ACS and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) isn’t just studying this – we’re acting on it: expanding patient navigation, offering free rides and lodging for people who have to travel for treatment, fighting for policies that protect access to affordable care, and giving communities better data to target solutions where the need is greatest.
Cancer doesn’t care about geography. Outcomes shouldn’t either. Our vision is to end cancer as we know it, for everyone and that means rural health can’t remain an afterthought.”
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