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HSR20-091: Bridge to Good Living: Outcomes and Financial Implications of a Lung Cancer Survivorship Program in West Virginia

Stephenie Kennedy-Rea, Adrienne Duckworth, Amy Reasinger Allen, and Samaneh Kalirai

decrease the consequences of treatment. In this analysis, we summarize the program outcomes and provide an economic perspective on implementation and sustainability. The Bridge Program enrolls and assesses patients at the end of cancer treatment using a

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CLO21-029: Impact of Comorbidity Patterns on the Outcomes of Older Patients With Diffuse Large B- Cell Lymphoma

Karen Valdés-Díaz, Halbert Hernández-Negrín, Leonel Valdés-Leiva, Diana Martin-Oliva, and Dianelys Pedraza-González

Background: Comorbidity in elderly has made it difficult to manage when they are affected by aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This has led to the historical achievement of poor outcomes, hence the analysis of the impact of comorbidity in this

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CLO22-060: > 3 Courses of Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) May Affect Outcomes of Advanced Ovarian Serous Adenocarcinoma Patients

Yunyun Liu, KKL Chan, and Hui Zhou

relapse, indicating that the poorer outcome of patients with NACT>3 may not be caused by chemo-induced resistance. The reason of worse outcomes after more cycles of NACT is still needed to be explored. CLO22-060 Figure 1 CLO22-060 Table 1

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QIM20-121: Oncology Nursing Evidenced Practice and Research Committee; Enhancing Continuity and Improving Patient Outcomes Across Oncology Service Lines

Kristen Burns, Archana Shenoy, and Nicole Turkoglu

population, examine policy and nursing practices to better navigate patients through the continuum of oncology care and improve patient outcomes. The purpose is to describe how the formation of an evidence-based practice committee can engage specialized

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Next-Generation Sequencing and In Silico Analysis Facilitate Prolonged Response to Pazopanib in a Patient With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis

Andrew W. Hahn, Smith Giri, Dilan Patel, Heather Sluder, Ari Vanderwalde, and Mike G. Martin

most patients with UCRP are elderly and many have had prior radical nephroureterectomy, the concern for renal toxicity frequently limits the use of these chemotherapeutic regimens. 11 The poor outcomes and significant toxicities associated with first

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Systemic Therapy for Advanced Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma: An Analysis From the NCCN Oncology Outcomes Database for Colorectal Cancer

Mohamedtaki A. Tejani, Anna ter Veer, Dana Milne, Rebecca Ottesen, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Al B. Benson III, Deborah Schrag, Stephen Shibata, John Skibber, Martin Weiser, Neal Wilkinson, and Steven J. Cohen

outcome is related primarily to underlying biology or aggressive cytoreduction with or without hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy is still debated. The role of modern systemic chemotherapy and targeted therapy in early or advanced nonmucinous and

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CLO22-090: Patient Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Advanced HER2-Low Breast Cancer

Alexandre Hikiji Watanabe, Connor Willis, Melissa Pavilack-Kirker, Clara Lam, Leah Park, Sandhya Mehta, Jackie Kwong, Anindit Chhibber, Hillevi Bauer, Sabrina Ilham, Diana Brixner, and David Stenehjem

in ongoing phase III clinical trials. This study aims to understand the prevalence, current treatment patterns and outcomes of HER2-low patients. Methods : This descriptive study analyzed data from a patient tumor registry in the Huntsman Cancer

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Outcomes of Patients With Unfavorable Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer Treated With External-Beam Radiotherapy Versus Brachytherapy Alone

Neal Andruska, Benjamin W. Fischer-Valuck, Ruben Carmona, Temitope Agabalogun, Randall J. Brenneman, Hiram A. Gay, Jeff M. Michalski, and Brian C. Baumann

BT + ADT Relative to EBRT Alone Given the significant potential selection bias for EBRT versus BT, IPTW was used to balance covariables that influenced both treatment allocation and outcomes, and weight-adjusted Cox regression was used to

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HSR21-076: Valued Outcomes in the Cancer Experience (VOICE™): Developing and Validating a Measure of Patient Experience

Alexandra K. Zaleta, Erica E. Fortune, Melissa F. Miller, Branlyn W. DeRosa, Joanne S. Buzaglo, Karen Hurley, Mitch Golant, Sara Goldberger, Bruce Rapkin, Lillie D. Shockney, Jemeille Ackourey, and Kelly A. Clark

Background: Despite recognition that patient perspectives should inform cancer care, validated measures that meaningfully capture the patient experience across the cancer continuum remain lacking. We developed Valued Outcomes in the Cancer

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HSR20-081: The Direct Referral Unit: Clinical Outcomes and Experience With a Specialized Urgent Care Center for Oncology Patients

Christopher D'Avella, Peter Whooley, Emily Milano, Brian Egleston, Martin Edelman, James Helstrom, Kenneth Patrick, and Jessica Bauman

admissions. Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) developed an urgent care center, the direct referral unit (DRU), in 2012. We sought to characterize the experience of the DRU and its impact on clinical outcomes and utilization. Methods: We abstracted data for