A few decades have passed since intensive care unit (ICU) beds have been available for
critically ill patients with cancer. Although the initial reports showed dismal prognosis, recent …

Over the last 20 years several advances have been made in the early diagnosis and
aggressive management of patients with various types of malignancies, resulting in a …

Advances in the management of malignancies and organ failures have led to substantial
increases in survival as well as in the number of cancer patients requiring intensive care unit …

ICU admission of selected cancer patients leads to meaningful survival. The optimal time of
ICU admission needs to be determined, and patient selection criteria by both hemato …

Purpose One in seven patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) has a cancer diagnosis
but evidence on their expected outcomes after admission has not been synthesised …

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics and outcomes of patients with cancer admitted to
several intensive care units. Knowledge on patients with cancer requiring intensive care is …

This narrative review deals with the challenge of defining adequate therapy goals and
intensive care unit (ICU) admission criteria for critically ill patients with cancer. Several …

Over the coming years, accelerating progress against cancer will be associated with an
increased number of patients who require life-sustaining therapies for infectious or toxic …

Answer questions and earn CME/CNE The increasing prevalence of patients living with
cancer in conjunction with the rapid progress in cancer therapy will lead to a growing …

Critically ill cancer patients constitute a large percentage of admissions to tertiary care
medical intensive care units (ICUs). We sought to describe outcomes of such patients, and to …