Sepsis As a Cause of Death Among Elderly Cancer Patients

NCT ID: NCT06619535

Last Updated: 2024-10-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 5239194 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2000-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-12-30

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Sepsis; Cancer

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• cancer patients
• age 65 year or more
• latency exclusion period of 0 months.

Exclusion Criteria

• Death certificate only and autopsy only cases

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

asmaa salama ibrahim

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

asmaa salama ibrahim

Resident physician of gastroenterology

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Suez Canal University

Ismailia, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

A273

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id