{
  "id": 15648838,
  "title": "Long and interstate travel may be a barrier to care for certain pediatric cancer patients",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/long-and-interstate-travel-may-be-a-barrier-to-care-for-certain",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-19T20:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-interstate-barrier-pediatric-cancer-patients.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}