Rural-urban Disparities in the Continuum of Thyroid Cancer Care: Analysis of 92,794 cases

CONCLUSION: Compared to their urban counterparts, rural and frontier patients with thyroid cancer present with later-stage disease and experience higher disease-specific mortality. They also are more often lost to follow-up, which presents an opportunity for targeted outreach to reduce the observed disparities in outcomes.PMID:38115602 | DOI:10.1089/thy.2023.0357
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Authors: Source Type: research