Evaluation of an oncology diagnostic and screening clinic at a large safety net hospital.

94 Background: Increasingly, dedicated clinics have been established to expedite patients with suspicion of malignancy into cancer care. The Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital (LBJGH) is part of the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), serving the third largest county in the United States. A 2012 study at our institution found long mean ambulatory wait times for the diagnosis of breast, colon, and lung cancers (77.1 days, 65.4 days, and 70.8...