A Multicenter Cohort Study to Explore Differentiating Factors between Tumor Fever and Infection among Advanced Cancer Patients.

Abstract:

: Background : Tumor fever and infection are common febrile etiologies among advanced cancer patients. To date, only few studies have been conducted to differentiate between tumor fever and infections. Objective: This study aimed to identify discriminating factors that provide rapid results and are feasible and minimally invasive for discriminating between tumor fever and infection in advanced cancer patients. Methods : This is a retrospective cohort study. Advanced cancer patients with clinically diagnosed tumor fever or infection, who received medical treatment from palliative care specialists in 10 nationwide Japanese hospitals, were consecutively identified during August 2012 and November 2014. The symptoms, physical findings, blood test results at baseline and during fever, imaging findings, and sociodemographic factors of these patients were retrospectively extracted. Results : Thirty-three patients with tumor fever and 72 patients with infection were identified. Their mean age was 68.8 years, 68 (64.8%) were men, and the median palliative performance status (PPS) was 50. Statistically significant factors predicting tumor fever by logistic regression analysis were as follows: deterioration of PPS (odds ratio, 0.078), shaking chills during fever (0.067), and change from baseline data of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio of ≥5 (0.14). Conclusions : Shaking chills during fever, and changes from baseline of performance status and white blood cell differentiation can be useful to differentiate between tumor fever and infection among advanced cancer patients. Further confirmatory studies are needed.

journal_name

J Palliat Med

authors

Odagiri T,Morita T,Sakurai H,Yamada H,Matsuo N,Matsumoto Y,Matsuda Y,Yoshioka A,Watanabe H,Shimoyama S,Kohara H

doi

10.1089/jpm.2018.0594

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1331-1336

issue

11

eissn

1096-6218

issn

1557-7740

journal_volume

22

pub_type

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