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Downloaded from Processes of care and survival associated with treatment in specialist teenage and young adult cancer centres: results from the BRIGHTLIGHT cohort study ForJournal: peerBMJ Open review only Manuscript ID bmjopen-2020-044854 Article Type: Original research Date Submitted by the 16-Sep-2020 Author: Complete List of Authors: Fern, Lorna; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oncology Taylor, Rachel; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centre for Nurse, Midwife and AHP Led Research (CNMAR) Barber, Julie; University College London, Department of Statistical Science Alvarez-Galvez, Javier; University of Cadiz, Department of Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Public Health Feltbower, Richard; University of Leeds, Lea, Sarah; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Martins, Ana; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cancer Clinical Trials Morris, Stephen; University of Cambridge, Primary Care Unit http://bmjopen.bmj.com/ Hooker, Louise; University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Wessex Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service, Gibson, Faith; University of Surrey, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences; Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust, Raine, Rosalind; University College London, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Stark, Dan; University of Leeds, Leeds Insitute of Molecular Medicine Whelan, Jeremy; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation on October 1, 2021 by guest. 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Downloaded from 6 7 Lorna A Fern PhD, Rachel M Taylor PhD, Julie A Barber PhD, Javier Alvarez Galvez PhD, 8 Richard Feltbower PhD, Sarah Lea PhD, Ana Martins PhD, Steve Morris PhD, Louise Hooker 9 MSc, Faith Gibson PhD, Rosalind Raine PhD, Dan P Stark MD, Jeremy S Whelan MD 10 11 12 13 Lorna Fern, Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Researcher and Patient/Public Involvement 14 Lead, Cancer Division, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London 15 NW1 2PG 16 17 18 Rachel Taylor, DirectorFor of the peer CNMAR, Centrereview for Nurse, Midwifeonly and AHP Led Research 19 (CNMAR), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London NW1 2PG 20 21 Julie Barber, Associate Professor in Medical Statistics, Department of Statistical Science, 22 23 University College, London WC1E 6BT 24 25 Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Research Fellow, Department of Biomedicine, Biotechnology and 26 Public Health, University of Cadiz, Avda. Ana de Viya, 52, 11009 Cádiz, Spain 27 28 Richard Feltbower, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, 29 30 School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. 31 32 Sarah Lea, Research Facilitator, Cancer Division, University College London Hospitals NHS 33 Foundation Trust, London NW1 2PG 34 35 36 Ana Martins, Research Associate, Cancer Division, University College London Hospitals 37 NHS Foundation Trust, London NW1 2PG http://bmjopen.bmj.com/ 38 39 Steve Morris, Professor of Health Economics, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public 40 41 Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 42 43 Louise Hooker, teenage Cancer Trust Lead Nurse, Wessex Teenage and Young Adult 44 Cancer Service, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, SO16 5YA 45 on October 1, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. 46 47 Faith Gibson, Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care, School of Health Sciences, 48 Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH 49 and Centre for Outcomes and Experience Research in Children’s Health, Illness and 50 Disability (ORCHID), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, 51 London WCIN3JH 52 53 54 Rosalind Raine, Professor of Health Services research, Department of Applied Health 55 Research, Director, NIHR CLAHRC North Thames, NIHR Senior Investigator, University 56 College London, London WC1E 7HB 57 58 59 Dan Stark, Professor of Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Research and Consultant 60 Medical Oncologist, Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, Leeds LS9 7TF 1 For peer review only - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/site/about/guidelines.xhtml Page 3 of 25 BMJ Open 1 2 3 4 Jeremy Whelan, Professor of Cancer Medicine, Cancer Division, University College London 5 BMJ Open: first published as 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044854 on 7 April 2021. Downloaded from 6 Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London NW1 2PG 7 8 Correspondence: Dr Rachel Taylor, [email protected] 9 10 Keywords: BRIGHTLIGHT, teenagers and young adults, cancer, observational research, 11 12 cohort, outcome, survival 13 14 Abstract = 297/300 15 Word count = 3,536 16 17 Number of Tables = 6 18 Number of Figures For= 1 peer review only 19 20 21 ABSTRACT 22 23 24 Objective: Survival gains in teenagers and young adults (TYA) are reported to be lower than 25 children and adults for some cancers. Place of care is implicated, influencing access to 26 specialist TYA professionals and research. Consequently, age-appropriate specialist cancer 27 28 care is advocated for TYA although systematic investigation of associated outcomes is 29 lacking. In England, age-appropriate care is delivered through 13 Principal Treatment 30 Centres (TYA-PTC). BRIGHTLIGHT is the national evaluation of TYA cancer services to 31 examine outcomes associated with differing places and levels of care. We aimed to examine 32 the association between exposure to TYA-PTC care, survival and documentation of clinical 33 34 processes of care. 35 36 Design: Prospective cohort study 37 http://bmjopen.bmj.com/ 38 Setting: 109 National Health Service (NHS) hospitals across England 39 40 41 Participants: 1,114 TYA, aged 13-24, newly diagnosed with cancer between 2012-2014 42 43 Intervention: Participants were assigned a TYA-PTC category dependent on the proportion 44 45 of care delivered in a TYA-PTC in the first year after diagnosis: all care in a TYA-PTC (ALL- on October 1, 2021 by guest.