Research Article
Mortality among Cancer Patients within 90 Days of Therapy in a Tertiary Hospital, Tanzania: Is Our Pretherapy Screening Effective?
Table 1
Description of type of cancer seen during the study period.
| | Variable | Frequency () | Percent (%) |
| | Gynecological cancers | 47 | 46 | | Cancer of the cervix | 40 | 39 | | Uterine cancer | 5 | 4.9 | | Ovarian cancer | 1 | 1 | | Choriocarcinoma | 1 | 1 | | Head and neck cancers | 12 | 12 | | Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck | 5 | 4.9 | | Adenocarcinoma of the head and neck | 3 | 2.9 | | Retinoblastoma | 2 | 2 | | Nasopharyngeal cancer | 1 | 1 | | Sinonasal cancer | 1 | 1 | | Connective tissue cancers (sarcoma) | 12 | 12 | | Kaposi’s sarcoma | 6 | 6 | | Malignant melanoma | 2 | 2 | | Malignant phyllodes | 1 | 1 | | Fibrosarcoma | 1 | 1 | | Osteosarcoma | 1 | 1 | | Chondrosarcoma | 1 | 1 | | Breast cancer | 11 | 11 | | Gastrointestinal cancers | 10 | 10 | | Hepatocellular cancer | 4 | 4 | | Pancreatic cancer | 2 | 2 | | Colon cancer | 2 | 2 | | Esophageal cancer | 1 | 1 | | Biliary rhabdomyosarcoma | 1 | 1 | | Hematolymphoid malignancies | 6 | 6 | | Hodgkin lymphoma | 2 | 2 | | Chronic myeloid leukemia | 1 | 1 | | Acute myeloid leukemia | 1 | 1 | | Burkitt’s lymphoma | 1 | 1 | | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 1 | 1 | | Genital and reproductive cancer | 2 | 2 | | Perianal cancer | 1 | 1 | | Prostate cancer | 1 | 1 | | Lung cancer | 1 | 1 |
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