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 …

Objective: To describe trends in outcomes of cancer patients with an unplanned admission
to the ICU between 1997 and 2013 and to identify risk factors for mortality of those admitted …

Improvements in living conditions and increasing life expectancy have combined to result in
ever older patients being admitted to hospital. In parallel, the increasing incidence of cancer …

Objectives: The acute respiratory distress syndrome is a frequent condition following
allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation …

The effectiveness of intensive care unit (ICU) care for cancer patients remains controversial.
Advances in antitumour and supportive care led to major improvements in outcomes of …

Background As the population ages and cancer therapies improve, there is an increased
call for elderly cancer patients to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). This study …

Background Patients with hematological malignancies admitted to an intensive care unit
(ICU) have a poor prognosis. The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is …

Objectives: Solid neoplasms can be directly responsible for organ failures at the time of
diagnosis or relapse. The management of such specific complications relies on urgent …

Background Admission of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) recipients to the
intensive care unit (ICU) remains controversial, especially when graft-versus-host disease …

With the beginning of the 21st century, development in the early detection and management
of patients with cancer has led to a significant increase in the survival rates of these patients …