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. 2015 Apr 18;4(7):966–976. doi: 10.1002/cam4.430

Table 2.

Cumulative intensive care unit admission stratified according to cancer diagnosis and gender

Number 30 days ICU admission (%)2 365 days ICU admission (%)2 730 days ICU admission (%)2
N (%)1 Male Female All Male Female P All Male Female P All Male Female P
Nongender-specific malignancy
 Lung cancer 3,546 (8.7) 2,125 1,421 1.6 2.0 1.1 0.474 5.3 6.2 4.0 0.061 6.3 7.5 4.4 0.003
 Head and neck cancer 1,876 (4.6) 1,017 859 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.676 3.7 4.7 2.6 0.131 5.2 6.6 3.5 0.001
 Colorectal cancer 3,389 (8.3) 1817 1,572 2.3 2.3 2.3 0.660 8.4 9.9 6.7 0.263 10.4 11.9 8.7 0.003
 Pancreatic and biliary cancer 2,759 (6.8) 1,418 1,341 2.8 3.2 2.3 0.032 8.2 9.9 6.3 0.066 9.4 11.1 7.6 0.005
 Esophageal cancer 1,661 (4.1) 1,274 414 2.8 2.3 4.1 0.765 25.5 26.7 22.0 0.214 27.3 28.7 23.1 0.102
 Other types of GI-cancer 1,323 (3.2) 803 520 2.5 2.6 2.3 0.377 10.4 11.7 8.5 0.382 11.8 13.7 9.0 0.011
 Urinary tract cancer 2,367 (5.8) 1,612 755 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.452 4.6 5.1 3.4 0.547 5.5 6.2 4.1 0.011
 Melanoma 491 (1.2) 225 266 0.2 0.4 0.0 3 0.8 1.8 0.0 0.050 1.5 2.5 0.7 0.059
 Sarcomas 2,245 (5.5) 1,149 1,096 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.170 1.9 2.3 1.4 0.017 2.8 3.6 1.9 0.019
 Hematological malignancy 4,275 (10.5) 2,370 1,905 1.6 1.9 1.3 0.675 4.7 5.8 3.3 0.332 6.2 7.7 4.4 <0.001
 Other types of cancer 2,162 (5.3) 1,048 1,114 1.4 1.8 1.1 0.293 3.3 4.0 2.6 0.193 4.2 5.4 3.0 0.201
Gender-specific malignancy
 Breast cancer 8,241 (20.2) 0.1 0.5 1.2
 Ovarian and endometrial cancer 1,598 (3.9) 0.8 1.4 1.5
 Cervical cancer 1,015 (2.5) 0.0 0.3 0.9
 Other types of gyn. cancer 446 (1.1) 0.0 0.4 0.8
 Prostate cancer 2,927 (7.2) 0.1 1.3 3.0
 Testicular cancer 395 (1.0) 0.0 1.0 1.6
1

Percentage of all cancer diagnoses.

2

Percentage of type of cancer in this cohort of 40,716 cancer diagnoses.

3

No comparison analysis is performed because the factor variable has only one value for every stratum.