MedPage Today October 8, 2025
Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states
Key Takeaways
- Medicaid expansion was associated with significantly improved 5-year cancer survival for patients in rural and high-poverty areas compared to non-expansion states.
- Five-year cause-specific survival increased by 2.55 percentage points among people living in rural areas and 1.54 percentage points among those living in high-poverty areas.
- Overall and cause-specific survival improved for several high-mortality cancers, including those of the pancreas, lung, and colon/rectum.
States that expanded Medicaid coverage had significantly better cancer survival among patients in rural and high-poverty areas as compared with non-expansion states, data from U.S. cancer registries showed.
Five-year cause-specific survival improved by 2.55 percentage points (ppt) among patients in rural areas of...
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