Life-saving advances in breast cancer care are failing to reach rural America equally. In two large studies led by the American Cancer Society, scientists found that survival and mortality disparities between rural and urban women diagnosed with breast cancer widened over time in the United States.
HHS, through the recently announced Office of Women’s Health, announced taht it will be pursuing a collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and DenseBreast-info.org to strengthen breast cancer screening, expand breast density education, and improve timely diagnostic follow-up, particularly for midlife women.
