{"id":13114,"date":"2022-10-24T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=13114"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:31:23","slug":"increasing-distance-from-treatment-centers-associated-with-advanced-stage-colorectal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/increasing-distance-from-treatment-centers-associated-with-advanced-stage-colorectal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Distance From Treatment Centers Associated With Advanced Stage Colorectal Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study of the National Cancer Database, the distance of patients from their medical facility was found to be associated with a risk of presenting with advanced (stage III or IV) colon cancer at initial diagnosis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compared with people living within 20.2 km of their treatment center, the odds ratio (OR) for advanced cancer was 1.11 for persons living 20.2 to 80 km from the center, 1.39 for those living 81 to 400 km away, and 1.78 for patients farther than 400 km from the facility. Having no insurance (OR, 1.33) or having only Medicaid (OR, 1.22) was also associated with advanced pathology stage. These findings were evident in all parts of the country except the South Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study of the National Cancer Database, the distance of patients from their medical facility was found to be associated with a risk of presenting with advanced (stage III or IV) colon cancer at initial diagnosis.&nbsp; Compared with people living within 20.2 km of their treatment center, the odds ratio (OR) for advanced cancer &#8230; <a title=\"Increasing Distance From Treatment Centers Associated With Advanced Stage Colorectal Cancer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/increasing-distance-from-treatment-centers-associated-with-advanced-stage-colorectal-cancer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Increasing Distance From Treatment Centers Associated With Advanced Stage Colorectal Cancer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[3464,2058,3462,3463],"class_list":["post-13114","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-advanced-cancer","tag-colon-2","tag-national-cancer-database","tag-odds-ratio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}