In cancer patients requiring ICU admission, mortality is driven by acute organ failure severity and performance status rather than specific cancer characteristics.
Guides ICU triage in cancer patients toward organ failure severity and performance status; leaves open cancer-specific prognostic roles.
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.
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