Research Article
Mortality among Cancer Patients within 90 Days of Therapy in a Tertiary Hospital, Tanzania: Is Our Pretherapy Screening Effective?
Table 2
Baseline characteristics for patients who died within 90 days.
| Variable | Patient identification | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| Age (years) | 76 | 71 | 52 | 43 | 65 | 50 | 49 | 62 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 33 | BMI (kg/m2) | 18 | 29 | 22.2 | 25 | 21 | 25 | 27.7 | 23.2 | 25.2 | 22.8 | 24.8 | 20.8 | Cancer type | Nasopharyngeal cancer | Breast cancer | GIT metastatic cancer | Malignant melanoma | Cervical cancer | Pancreatic cancer | Sinonasal cancer | Adenocarcinoma of the nose | Cervical cancer | Cervical cancer | Lung cancer | Squamous cell carcinoma of the cheek | Type of therapy | | | | | | | | | | | | | Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 | 5-Fluorouracil Cisplatin Paclitaxel | Carboplatin | Docetaxel Dexamethasone | Carboplatin | Cisplatin Dacarbazine | Gemcitabine 5-Fluorouracil | Cisplatin Radiotherapy | Cisplatin | Cisplatin Radiotherapy | Cisplatin 5-Fluorouracil | Docetaxel Dexamethasone | Cisplatin 5-Fluorouracil Dexamethasone | Stage of cancer | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Baseline neutrophil (×109/L) | 3.51 | 19.7 | 3.2 | 2.38 | 2.94 | 5.65 | 0.75 | 2.83 | 5.79 | 3.21 | 3.05 | 1.47 | Neutrophil 1 (×109/L) | 2.9 | 19.8 | 2.87 | 3.92 | 1.09 | 5.17 | 1.65 | 2.6 | 5.8 | 2.25 | 2.4 | 1.2 | Neutrophil 2 (×109/L) | — | — | 1.35 | 2.41 | 1.08 | — | 1.41 | 1.6 | 7.46 | — | 1.3 | 1.7 | Neutrophil 3 (×109/L) | — | — | — | 1.13 | — | — | — | 3.17 | 2.69 | — | — | — | Neutrophil 4 (×109/L) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3.07 | 3.91 | — | — | — | Neutrophil 5 (×109/L) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | Baseline Hb (g/dL) | 9.6 | 11.1 | 11 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9 | 9.1 | 10.5 | 7.3 | 10.3 | 11.4 | 9.5 | Baseline WBC (×109/L) | 6.14 | 4.58 | 4.8 | 4.29 | 5.33 | 8.37 | 2.92 | 4.8 | 8.84 | 5.1 | 4.97 | 2.29 | Karnofsky score (%) | 80 | 20 | 60 | 80 | 90 | 70 | 90 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 80 | 70 | Blood culture | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | S. aureus | No growth | Urine culture | No growth | P. aeruginosa | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | No growth | E. coli | Body temperature(°C) | 36 | 38.2 | 37.1 | 36.3 | 36.8 | 37.2 | 37 | 35.2 | 35.5 | 36.7 | 35.3 | 36.8 |
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