Developing Contemporary Survivorship Clinic for Recipients of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Single Center Experience
Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
; 29(2 Supplement):S367, 2023.
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| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2317329
ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Survival after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) has improved tremendously over the last few decades. HCT survivors are at increased risk of long-term complications and secondary cancers. This poses unique challenges to the HCT-related healthcare system given the growing need for survivorship care. Developing a HCT survivorship program with a dedicated clinic to survivors ensures equitable access to care and ongoing patient education. Herein, we describe our program survivorship model and our initial experience. Method(s) The Moffitt Cancer Center (MCC) survivorship clinic (SC) planning committee was initiated in September 2019. The SC was launched in January 2021 with the mission to provide high-quality, comprehensive, and personalized survivorship care and to empower patients and community health care providers with education and a roadmap for screening for late effects. The SC initially focused on allogeneic (allo) HCT patients and later opened to autologous (auto) HCT recipients in February 2022. HCT patients are referred by primary HCT team after HCT with an emphasis on preferred timeframe of initial SC visit no earlier than 3 months but less than 12 months from HCT. SC is located at 2 physical locations main campus and satellite, with virtual visit options to account for the distance from MCC and COVID considerations. SC applies a consultative model. SC is staffed by dedicated advanced practice professional (APP), supervised by SC faculty. The scope of SC care includes but is not limited to prevention of infections (education, vaccinations), surveillance of late effects (endocrine, pulmonary function, cardiac, bone health), and general cancer screenings (breast, colon, skin cancer). Patients' clinical data from SC inception to August 2022 were reviewed. Result(s) From January 2021 to August 2022, a total of 138 patients were seen in SC. The majority were seen in person (62% in clinic, 38% by virtual visit). Median age was 58 years (range, 19-82). Median time to first SC visit was 21 months (range, 3-1464) after HCT. Allo HCT was the most common type of HCT seen in clinic (87%, n=120). Most common diagnoses were acute myeloid leukemia (43%, n=59), myelodysplastic syndrome (17%, n=23), and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (10%, n=14). Only 17 patients (12%) were seen in 2021 but the volume increased significantly in 2022. Currently there are more than 10 patients seen in SC per month. Conclusion(s) We report successful experience in launching a contemporary HCT SC despite the challenges of an ongoing COVID pandemic. As a stand-alone cancer center, we serve a wide geographical location with subspecialty and primary care providers dispersed throughout the community. Our consultative model and experience could provide a useful guide for other programs. In 2023, we plan to expand our SC to a broader population of patients receiving other cellular immunotherapies.Copyright © 2023 American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
acute lymphoblastic leukemia; acute myeloid leukemia; adult; advanced cancer; advanced practice provider; aged; allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; breast cancer; cancer center; cancer screening; cancer survival; colon cancer; community care; conference abstract; controlled study; coronavirus disease 2019; education; endocrine function; endocrine system; female; heart; human; immunotherapy; lung function; major clinical study; middle aged; myelodysplastic syndrome; pandemic; patient education; prevention; primary medical care; skin cancer; surgery; survivor; survivorship; vaccination
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Type of study:
Prognostic study
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English
Journal:
Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Year:
2023
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