Table 5. Top-10 ranked features generated across 4 different cancer types in multilayer perceptron.

Ranking	Breast cancer	Colorectal cancer	Lung cancer	Prostate cancer
1	Age	Age	Tobacco use	Age
2	Gender	Diabetes	Age	Gender
3	Hyperlipidemia	Anemia	Respiratory or pulmonary diseasesa	Race or ethnicity
4	Heart diseasesb	Acidosis	Gender	Tobacco use
5	Race or ethnicity	Hyperlipidemia	Race or ethnicity	Diabetes
6	Marital status	Sepsis	Diabetes	Hyperlipidemia
7	Depressive disorder	Gender	Hyperlipidemia	Heart diseases
8	Religion	Race or ethnicity	Hypertension	Marital status
9	Anemia	Marital status	Heart diseases	Religion
10	Hypothyroidism	Depressive disorder	Acute kidney failure	Depressive disorder

^aRespiratory or pulmonary diseases include pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, chronic airway obstruction, and other respiratory or pulmonary complications.

^bHeart diseases include atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, coronary atherosclerosis, and other cardiac complications.