Risk factors for early death among ovarian cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize ovarian cancer patients who die within 6 months of diagnosis and to identify prognostic factors for these early deaths.

Methods

A nationwide cohort study covering ovarian cancer in Denmark in 2005-2016. Tumor and patient characteristics including comorbidity and socioeconomic factors were obtained from the comprehensive Danish national registers.

Results

A total of 5,570 patients were included in the study. Three months after ovarian cancer diagnosis 456 (8.2%) had died and 664 (11.9%) died within 6 months of diagnosis. Adjusted for age and comorbidity, patients who died early were admitted to hospital significantly more often in a 6-month period before the diagnosis (odds ratio [OR]=1.61 [1.29-2.00], and OR=1.47 [1.21-1.78]), for patients wh

SUBMITTER: Mosgaard BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7189078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature