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Long and interstate travel may be a barrier to care for certain pediatric cancer patients
One in five pediatric cancer patients in a large national cohort lived more than 90 minutes away from their treatment center, and patients with the highest social vulnerability were least likely to access out-of-state medical care…
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One in five pediatric cancer patients in a large national cohort lived more than 90 minutes away from their treatment center, and patients with the highest social vulnerability were least likely to access out-of-state medical care, according to research presented at the 19th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities , held Oct. 18–21, 2026.
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