{
  "id": 15627427,
  "title": "Disparities in breast cancer mortality between rural and urban patients projected to widen by 2035",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/disparities-in-breast-cancer-mortality-between-rural-and-urban",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-19T16:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-disparities-breast-cancer-mortality-rural.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Between 1999 and 2020, breast cancer mortality declined across rural and urban populations, but by 2005, mortality among rural patients surpassed that of urban patients and after 2013 remained consistently higher, a disparity that is projected to widen further by 2035, according to research presented at the 19th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Oct. 18–21 in…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}