Navigation programs' impact in a Colombian breast cancer patients cohort.

e17553 Background: Breast cancer mortality rates in Colombia remain high in part due to unequal access to quality programs within the country´s health care system. Patient navigation Program (PNP) is an intervention that aims at improving health care by providing coordination from diagnosis to treatment. The patient population in Colombian has two types of public health care insurance, a patient based (contributive regimen) and a government based (subsidized regimen) with wide differences in coverage between them. In Colombia a PNP was designed by a collaboration between the contributive regimen insurance plan (EPS.SURA) and the Instituto de Cancerologia (IDC). Methods: The goal of our study was to determine the association between our implemented PNP outcome measures such as overall survival (OS) and diseases free survival (DFS). A total of 2.729 breast cancer patients [1.257 navigated from EPS.SURA contributive regimen (NP.CR); 1.087 non-navigated from others non EPS.SURA contributive regimens (NNP.CR) ...