Sepsis As a Cause of Death Among Elderly Cancer Patients

N/ACompletedNCT06619535

asmaa salama ibrahim5,239,194 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this retrospective study is to explore the association between sepsis and morality among the elderly cancer patients. Data were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results( SEER) database using SEER\*stat software. The study included patients aged 65 years or more who were diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2021. The extracted data included age, race, marital status, sex, stage, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Multiple primary session was used to calculate the standardized Mortality ratio (SMR) as Observed/Expected with excess risk/10,000 and significance was achieved at 0.05.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

5,239,194

Conditions

Sepsis Cancer

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * cancer patients * age 65 year or more * latency exclusion period of 0 months. Exclusion Criteria: \- Death certificate only and autopsy only cases

Locations (1)

Suez Canal University

Ismailia, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

SMR for sepsis as a cause of death among elderly cancer patients

Patients were followed up from the time of diagnosis and the risk was assessed across different time intervals: 1 year, 5 years and +10 years after cancer diagnosis from 2000 to 2021

Time frame: from Jan, 2000 till Dec, 2021

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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