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We included 388 patients. Median age: 72 years; range (28-98). 65% were males. ECOG 0-2: 68%; 3-4: 32%. Most frequent primary tumors were lung (23%), upper gastrointestinal (19%) and colorectal cancer (16%). Most common symptoms leading to hospital admission were deterioration of the general condition (51%), dyspnoea (12%) and infection (10%). On multivariate analysis, attention by HPCU was the only significant feature to reduce the number of emergency care unit visits and hospital admissions (OR 5.67, p¼<.001 and OR 8.62, p¼<.001, respectively). Data shown in table . Conclusions: Patients receiving HPCU assistance have lower number of emergency room visits and hospital admissions which leads to decreases the public health spending, and improvement in quality of life. Thus, providing adequate resources to HPCU should be a priority for the management of oncologic patients at the end of life.
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rarely associated with cancer. The
association paraneoplastic vasculitis and tumors appears to be more
frequent with hematologic cancers. The authors report the case of
83-years-old Caucasian man, diagnosed with prostatic adenocarcinoma who
developed a paraneoplastic GCA responsive to corticosteroids associated
with disease progression.
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