Goodluck Nchasi

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Purpose Evaluate the potential risk for long-term complications related to cancer therapy among childhood cancer survivors who completed treatment in Tanzania at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), and compare the relative risk assessment of BMC survivor cohort and British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS) cohort. Methods Files of all patients age <18 yo with an oncologic diagnosis who received and completed their treatment at BMC from 2016 to 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. Extracted data included patient demographics, primary disease diagnosis and site, treatment received, and cumulative treatment doses. BCCSS risk assessment was assigned. Predicted long term follow up surveillance needs were extrapolated from published Children’s Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines. Results A total of 173 patients were included in the survivor cohort (47% female, average age =7). The most common diagnoses were Burkitt lymphoma (26%, n=45) and Wilms (30%, n=52). Within the cohort, 98% received chemotherapy (n=170), 49% (n=73) underwent tumor resection, and 18% (n=32) received radiation. Distribution of BCCSS late effect risk assessment included 6% low risk (n=10), 80% moderate risk (n=139) and 14% (n=24) high risk. Based on treatment received, the late effects with highest potential risk were cardiomyopathy (57% of patients, n=98), bladder and urinary tract toxicity (50%, n=87), and ototoxicity (22%, n=38). Conclusion Childhood cancer survivors at BMC have a higher risk of late effects as compared to published survivor cohorts in high-income countries. There is a need to develop and improve long-term follow-up care for survivors by enhancing patient and provider education to promote early detection of late effects.[1](#fn-0002)

David Noyd

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Background: This retrospective study harnessed an institutional cancer registry to construct a childhood cancer survivorship cohort, integrate electronic health record (EHR) and geospatial data to risk stratify patients for serious adverse health outcomes, analyze follow-up care patterns, and determine factors associated with suboptimal follow-up care. Procedure: The survivorship cohort included patients ≤18 years of age with a diagnosis of a malignancy reported to the institutional cancer registry between January 1, 1994 and November 30, 2012. ICD-O-3 coding and treatment exposures facilitated risk stratification of survivors. All follow-up visits were extracted from the EHR through linkage to the cancer registry based on medical record number (MRN). Results: Eight-hundred-and-sixty-five survivors were included in the final analytic cohort, of whom 191, 496, and 158 were considered low, intermediate, and high risk survivors, respectively. Two-hundred-and-eight-two survivors (32.6%) were not seen in any oncology-related subspecialty clinic at Duke five to seven years after initial diagnosis. Factors associated with a clinic visit included younger age (p=0.008), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as the primary diagnosis (p<0.001), race/ethnicity (p=0.010), risk strata (p=0.001), distance to treatment center (p<0.0001), and lower ADI (p=0.011). Multivariable logistic modeling with adjustment for diagnosis of ALL, gender, age at diagnosis, and race/ethnicity attenuated the association between follow-up care and risk strata (p=0.17) Conclusions: Nearly a third of survivors received suboptimal follow-up care. This study provides a reproducible model to integrate cancer registry and EHR data to construct risk-stratified survivorship cohorts to assess follow-up care.