Rural women face higher death rates for breast cancer—and the gap is widening
Women from rural locales are becoming less and less likely to survive a bout with breast cancer, a pair of new studies from the American Cancer Society show. Breast cancer death rates are now higher in rural areas than in cities, according to a study presented at the meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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