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ArticleJournal of intensive care medicine2025

Survival of Patients with Solid Tumours and Sepsis Admitted to Intensive Care in a Tertiary Oncology Centre: A Retrospective Analysis.

Sam S Smith, Luke Edwards, Timothy Wigmore, Shaman Jhanji, David B Antcliffe, Kate C Tatham

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Sam S SmithDivision of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7654-9732
Luke EdwardsDepartment of Critical Care & Anaesthetics, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Timothy WigmoreDepartment of Critical Care & Anaesthetics, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Shaman JhanjiDepartment of Critical Care & Anaesthetics, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
David B AntcliffeDivision of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Kate C TathamDivision of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.

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IntroductionSepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Patients with cancer are at risk of developing sepsis and requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We aimed to assess survival of patients with a solid tumour admitted to ICU as an emergency with sepsis, and to identify predictors of 90-day survival at admission.Materials and MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort survival analysis. We identified adults with a solid tumour admitted to ICU with sepsis between 01/01/2011 and 31/12/2020 at a tertiary oncology centre with two hospitals (London and Surrey, UK). We defined sepsis using the Sepsis-3 definition. The primary outcome was 90-day survival. We used the parametric accelerated failure time model for multivariate analysis to generate acceleration factors (AF).Results625 patients were identified and the 90-day survival rate was 59.5%(353/593).Multivariate analysis identified the presence of localized (AF 0.13, 95% CI 0.06-0.25) or regionalized disease (AF 0.21, 95% CI 0.12-0.36) compared to distant metastatic disease, unplanned surgery on the day of admission (AF 0.15, 95% CI 0.07-0.31), lactate (AF 1.25 95% CI 1.15-1.35), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score (AF 1.19, 95% CI 1.12-1.27), previous radiotherapy (AF 1.89, 95% CI 1.14-3.125), previous systemic anti-cancer treatment (excluding hormonal therapy) (AF 1.49, 95% CI 0.93-2.38), bacteraemia (AF 0.47, 95% CI 0.27-0.81) and serum albumin (AF 0.94, 95% CI 0.91-0.98) as independent predictors of 90-day survival.ConclusionsThis study of solid tumour patients admitted to ICU is one of the largest providing survival data to inform clinicians and patients. This data provides information on factors that should be considered when deliberating the possible outcome of ICU admission for a patient with solid malignancy and sepsis and highlights that the presence of cancer itself should not limit ICU admission for sepsis.

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Intensive Care UnitsNeoplasmsSepsisAdultAgedCritical CareFemaleHospital MortalityHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSurvival AnalysisTertiary Care Centerscancercritical careintensive caresepsis

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