Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Smitha Pabbathi , Mary Ann Morgan
Background: There is a lack of existing evidence on survivorship care models and their advantages and disadvantages when it comes to improving health outcomes. We describe the evolution of a Survivorship Care model at a large NCI designated Cancer Institute. Our model is closest to ASCO’s description of General Survivorship Clinic/Shared Care. The Clinic is led by a full time nurse practitioner and two part time internists. Initial start-up expenses were provided by Foundation funds Methods: Aggregate data was requested from Information Shared Services. Data was extracted from both Billing from Transmed-HRI and the Cancer Registry from the time period of May 2011 to August 2015 to identify patients who have been followed in the long-term Survivorship clinic. Results: Our program initially focused on breast and prostate cancer populations based on SEER data of cancer survivors and risk-stratification. Twelve other cancer types are now referred resulting in steady growth. A review of our patient population revealed 924 unique patients of which 619 were female and 305 male. Fifty-nine patients fell in the age range 20-44, 445 in the age range 45-65, and 420 > 65 age. Over fifty percent of our patients are from the Breast Program; the next largest population is Genito-Urinary and third largest group is Digestive. The patients racially identified as white are 89%, 6.3% black, 2.7% as other, 2% unknown. This is consistent with the center population. Eighty patients had recurrences or new primaries. Conclusions: The number of referrals has grown every year and the majority of patients continue to be followed annually. Patients do not feel lost in transition because we have a team based approach as the parent program exists within the institution. Our model not only allows our oncologists to focus on new patients and those with recurrent or metastatic disease but it can help bridge survivorship care from the oncologist to primary care physicians in the community. This type of clinic will also facilitate evaluation and treatment of late effects such as anthracyclines and pelvic radiation across diseases for management of symptoms.
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