Preventing and treating cancer in rural America

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Policy.
• Description:
  Cancer is the second leading cause of death in America. Compared to urban areas, rural areas have lower rates of new cancer cases, but the cancer death rate is higher. Rural areas are also making slower progress reducing new cases of cancer and cancer deaths. Rural residents have higher rates of lung, colorectal, and cervical cancers. Lung and colorectal cancers are among the deadliest. However, these cancers are also preventable. Cancer costs about $88 billion in health care each year in the U.S.
  
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  Policy-Brief-Cancer-H.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Colonic Neoplasms/prevention & Control Lung Neoplasms/preventin & Control Neoplasms/preventin & Control Rural Health Rural Population Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/prevention & Control
• Source:
  Rural health policy brief ; MMWR rural health series
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  8 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/55581/cdc_55581_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.48 MB ]