US Oncology Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 20...(ity to obtain additionalfinancing on acc...)

Date:2/28/2008

ity to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, the Company's ability to implement strategic initiatives, the Company's ability to maintain good relationships with existing practices and expand into new markets and development of existing markets, modifications to, and renegotiation of, existing economic arrangements, the Company's ability to complete cancer centers and PET facilities currently in development and its ability to recover investments in cancer centers, government regulation and enforcement, increases in the cost of providing cancer treatment services and the operations of the Company's affiliated physician practices. Please refer to the US Oncology Holdings, Inc. filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed on October 9, 2007, and subsequent filings, for a more extensive discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations.

Discussion of Non-GAAP Information

In this release, the Company uses the term "EBITDA" and "Adjusted EBITDA". EBITDA is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (including amortization of stock compensation), minority interest expense and other income (expense). EBITDA is not calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA before loss on early extinguishment of debt and impairment and restructuring charges. These measures are derived from relevant items in the Company's GAAP financial statements. A reconciliation of EBITDA to net income (loss) and operating cash flow is included in this release.

The Company believes EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating the value of companies in general, and in evaluating the liquidity of companies with debt service obligations and their ability to service their indebtedness. Management uses EBITDA as a key indicator to evaluate liquidit
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