Identifying older patients with advanced cancer who have a high risk for hospitalization and death could be a game changer. A new analysis suggests that goal is within reach. OncTwitter
Identifying older patients with advanced cancer who have a high risk for hospitalization and death could be a game changer. A new analysis suggests that goal is within reach.
Overall, the findings suggest that moderate-to-severe baseline symptom severity is independently associated with all-cause mortality in this patient population, the authors, led by Huiwen Xu, PhD, MHA, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, concluded. This analysis included data from patients who completed the National Cancer Institute Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events before initiating their new treatment regimen. The algorithm clustered patients based on similar baseline symptom severities. The severity of symptoms was scored from 0 to 4 — which corresponded to none, mild, moderate, severe, and very severe symptoms — and the total severity score was calculated as the sum of 24 items .
Compared with patients in the low-severity cluster, those in the moderate-severity cluster were significantly more likely to experience hospitalization , but not those in the high-severity cluster . Patients in all groups had similar risks for toxic effects.
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