"It really takes a village": perspectives on multi-level barriers to endometrial cancer care for rural patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

While it is established that rural cancer patients face multi-level barriers to high-quality treatment, the interconnections between these barriers and how they drive rural cancer disparities is not well-understood. Therefore, our objective was to better understand the interconnections between barriers to high-quality treatment faced by rural endometrial cancer (EC) patients.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with 32 clinicians and healthcare personnel from three large, geographically diverse, rural-serving, integrated healthcare systems in North Carolina. A semi-structured interview guide was developed to examine barriers to high-quality treatment for rural EC patients. Initial codes were derived from a multi-level conceptual framework of rural cancer

SUBMITTER: Taffe BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12320979 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature