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. 2019 Apr 4;5(7):1028–1035. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.0086

Table 1. Tumor Types of Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments for Complications of Systemic Therapy or Radiotherapy, 2006-2015.

Tumor Type No. of Visits (N = 1 527 930) (%)a
Solid
Bladder 38 144 (2.5)
Bone and connective tissue 21 455 (1.4)
Brain and nervous system 22 972 (1.5)
Breast 201 331 (13.2)
Cervix 33 301 (2.2)
Colon 103 989 (6.8)
Esophagus 31 824 (2.1)
Head and neck 71 140 (4.7)
Kidney and renal 2696 (0.2)
Liver and intrahepatic bile duct 16 592 (1.1)
Lung 305 982 (20.0)
Melanoma 16 501 (1.1)
Other 56 793 (3.7)
Ovary 55 723 (3.6)
Pancreas 47 588 (3.1)
Prostate 113 579 (7.4)
Rectum and anus 55 622 (3.6)
Stomach 24 646 (1.6)
Testis 7995 (0.5)
Thyroid 7539 (0.5)
Uterus 35 467 (2.3)
Liquid
Hodgkin lymphoma 19 760 (1.3)
Leukemia 117 301 (7.7)
Multiple myeloma 52 304 (3.4)
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 148 902 (9.7)
a

The total number of patients with individual cancers sums to more than the total number of patients in the study cohort because some patients had more than 1 type of cancer.