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41Background: Patients often face challenges in transitioning to the survivorship stage of cancer care and coordinating with primary care. Prior research has highlighted the uncertainty in who provides survivorship care, leaving patients “lost in transition”. Integrating primary care providers (PCP) into cancer care offers one potential solution. Expanding traditional PCP roles to participating throughout the cancer continuum and familiarizing PCPs with cancer patients’ needs can address this gap. We describe an innovative model of incorporating PCPs to delivering primary care to cancer survivors at a large academic institution. Methods: As one part of a plan to address an identified need for improving survivorship care for cancer patients at Johns Hopkins, PCPs and cancer survivorship care experts developed the Primary Care for Cancer Survivors clinic (PCCS) in 11/2015. The clinic receives referrals from the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and patients are seen for either a one-ti...