Understanding Posttreatment Patient‐Provider Communication and Follow‐Up Care Among Self‐Identified Rural Cancer Survivors in Illinois

Purpose As disparities in rural‐urban cancer survivorship rates continue to widen, optimizing patient‐provider communication regarding timely follow‐up care is a potential mechanism to improving survivorship‐related outcomes. The current study examines sociodemographic and health predictors of posttreatment patient‐provider communication and follow‐up care and associations between written communication and timely follow‐up care for cancer...