Looking Back to Move Forward: Lessons Learned from a Successful, Sustainable, Replicable Model of Adolescent and Young Adult Program of a Tertiary Cancer Care Center.

ABSTRACT: Background: The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM) established the adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology program in 2014 to address the unique needs of AYA by delivering targeted, evidence-based care through a multidisciplinary team. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent a consultation with the PM AYA program from 2014 to 2020. The association between the health domain concerns reported and age at consultation, cancer diagnoses, and time since diagnosis was analyzed using chi-square test of independence in SPSS. Results: In our cohort of 1128 AYA, the median age at assessment was 28.2 years. The most common diagnoses were lymphoma (n = 251, 22.2%), leukemia (n = 207, 18.4%), and breast cancer (

SUBMITTER: Pitch N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9057888 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature