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County-level urbanicity at diagnosis was defined using the SEER-linked, year-specific Rural\u2013Urban Continuum Code (RUCC) as nonmetropolitan (NM; RUCC 4\u20139), small\/medium metropolitan (SMM; RUCC 2\u20133; metropolitan areas with &lt;1 million residents), or large metropolitan (LM; RUCC 1; metropolitan areas with \u22651 million residents). Cancer-specific overlap-weighted Cox models estimated mortality hazard ratios (HRs), complemented by 36-month OS, restricted mean survival time (RMST), and sensitivity analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The cohort included 5,486,535 patients: 664,872 in NM, 1,571,092 in SMM, and 3,250,571 in LM areas. In the primary adjusted model, SMM and LM residence were associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality than NM residence in 13 and 14 of 19 tumor groups, respectively, after false discovery rate (FDR) correction. For lung cancer, the HRs were 0.97 (95% CI, 0.96\u20130.98) for SMM versus NM and 0.93 (95% CI, 0.92\u20130.95) for LM versus NM; neither contrast was significant for esophageal cancer. Direct SMM-versus-LM comparisons differed significantly in 8 tumor groups, all favoring LM. Absolute differences were modest; the largest 36-month OS difference was 3.59 percentage points (stomach cancer, LM vs NM), and the largest 36-month RMST difference was 1.26 months (other digestive system\/peritoneal tumors, LM vs NM).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compared with NM residence, SMM and LM residence were associated with more favorable OS in multiple solid tumor groups, with associations observed more broadly for LM residence. 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