Changes in geographic accessibility to mammography by state and rural-urban status

Paper published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Wiese D, Islami F, Henry KA. Changes in geographic accessibility to mammography by state and rural-urban status, United States, 2006-2022. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Dec 14:djac217. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djac217. 

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