In cancer patients requiring ICU admission, mortality is driven by acute organ failure severity and performance status rather than specific cancer characteristics.
This large multicenter study reports encouraging survival rates for patients with cancer requiring intensive care. In these patients, mortality was mostly dependent on the severity of organ failures, performance status, and need for mechanical ventilation rather than cancer-related characteristics, such as the type of malignancy or the presence of neutropenia.
Soares et al. (Thu,) studied this question.