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        Intensive care in patients with lung cancer : a multinational study

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        Soares, M
        Toffart, A-C
        Timsit, J-F
        Burghi, G
        Irrazábal, C
        Pattison, N
        Tobar, E
        Almeida, B F C
        Silva, U V A
        Azevedo, L C P
        Rabbat, A
        Lamer, C
        Parrot, A
        Souza-Dantas, V C
        Wallet, F
        Blot, F
        Bourdin, G
        Piras, C
        Delemazure, J
        Durand, M
        Tejera, D
        Salluh, J I F
        Azoulay, E
        Lung Cancer in Critical Care (LUCCA) Study Investigators
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        2299/19772
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        BACKGROUND: Detailed information about lung cancer patients requiring admission to intensive care units (ICUs) is mostly restricted to single-center studies. Our aim was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of lung cancer patients admitted to ICUs. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Prospective multicenter study in 449 patients with lung cancer (small cell, n = 55; non-small cell, n = 394) admitted to 22 ICUs in six countries in Europe and South America during 2011. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards frailty models were built to identify characteristics associated with 30-day and 6-month mortality. RESULTS: Most of the patients (71%) had newly diagnosed cancer. Cancer-related complications occurred in 56% of patients; the most common was tumoral airway involvement (26%). Ventilatory support was required in 53% of patients. Overall hospital, 30-day, and 6-month mortality rates were 39%, 41%, and 55%, respectively. After adjustment for type of admission and early treatment-limitation decisions, determinants of mortality were organ dysfunction severity, poor performance status (PS), recurrent/progressive cancer, and cancer-related complications. Mortality rates were far lower in the patient subset with nonrecurrent/progressive cancer and a good PS, even those with sepsis, multiple organ dysfunctions, and need for ventilatory support. Mortality was also lower in high-volume centers. Poor PS predicted failure to receive the initially planned cancer treatment after hospital discharge. CONCLUSIONS: ICU admission was associated with meaningful survival in lung cancer patients with good PS and non-recurrent/progressive disease. Conversely, mortality rates were very high in patients not fit for anticancer treatment and poor PS. In this subgroup, palliative care may be the best option.
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        2014-09-01
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        Annals of Oncology
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        https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdu234
        License
        http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/19772
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