Cancer Disparities in Rural Appalachia: Incidence, Early Detection, and Survivorship

Purpose To document cancer‐related health disparities in Appalachia. Methods The current study investigated disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and staging between rural Appalachians and those living outside of rural Appalachia. To accomplish this, mortality data for the United States from 1969 to 2011 were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) using SEER * Stat. These data were used to compare trends in...