Abstract:Background:
Patients living in rural communities experience difficulty accessing specialized medical care. Rural patients with cancer present with more advanced disease, have reduced access to treatment and have poorer overall survival than urban patients. This study’s aim was to evaluate outcomes of patients with gastric cancer living in rural and remote areas versus urban and suburban communities in the context of an established care corridor to a tertiary care centre.
Methods:
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“…C JS has been made aware of an error that occurred in an article published on May 2, 2023. 1 The graphs in Figure 2, panels B and C didn’t render properly and appeared blank. This has been corrected at canjsurg.ca.…”
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