Are Intensive Cares Worthwhile for Breast Cancer Patients: The Experience of an Oncological ICU

Frontiers in Medicine

Virginie Destrebecq¹ 

关键词: breast cancer;    intensive care;    survival;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2016.00050

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

PurposeOne among seven women will present with breast cancer for which major therapeutic advances led to a significant increase in survival and cure rates. During or after cancer treatment, severe complications may occur requiring admission in intensive care unit (ICU). Intensivists could be reluctant for accepting cancer patients in the ICU, and there are very few data about causes of admission and prognosis of patients with breast cancer admitted in the ICU for an acute complication. Our study seeks to determine, in a population of patients with breast cancer, the main causes for ICU admission and the predictors of death during hospital stay and prognostic factors for survival after hospital discharge.

【 授权许可】

CC BY