Relation of Malnutrition and Nosocomical Infections in Cancer Patients in Hospital: An Observational Study

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics at hospital admission (study population, baseline).

Characteristics	Value (n = 107)
Age (years), mean (range)	66.19 (34–95)
Gender, n (%)
Male	71 (66.4%)
Female	36 (33.6%)
Tumor location, n (%)
Lung	28 (26.1%)
Colorectal	14 (13.1%)
Gastroesophageal	13 (12.1%)
Head and neck	9 (8.4%)
Breast	9 (8.4%)
Urinary tract	8 (7.5%)
Gynecologic	8 (7.5%)
Sarcoma	6 (5.6%)
Pancreatic-biliary	6 (5.6%)
Others	6 (5.6%)
Tumor stage, n (%)
Local	6 (5.6%)
Locally advanced	26 (24.3%)
Advanced	75 (70.1%)
Performance status, n (%)
0	22 (20.6%)
1	40 (37.4%)
2	16 (14.9%)
3	19 (17.8%)
4	10 (9.3%)
Patients on active oncological treatment, n (%)	80 (74.8%)
Oncological treatment at admission, n (%)
Chemotherapy	35 (32.7%)
Immunotherapy	15 (14.0%)
Chemotherapy + immunotherapy	10 (9.3%)
Target therapy	12 (11.2%)
Palliative care	15 (14.0%)
No previous treatment	12 (11.2%)
Others	8 (7.5%)
Therapy lines
First-line	41 (38.3%)
Second-line	23 (21.5%)
Third or later lines	16 (14.9%)
Patients without active oncological treatment, n (%)	27 (25.2%)
Reason for hospital admission, n (%)
Cancer diagnosis or treatment	21 (19.6%)
Infection or sepsis	20 (18.7%)
Digestive tract symptoms (vomiting, bleeding, jaundice, intestinal obstruction…)	20 (18.7%)
Pain	15 (14.0%)
Dyspnea symptoms (pulmonary thromboembolism, lung cancer progression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)	11 (10.3%)
Medication toxicity	10 (9.3%)
Others	10 (9.3%)

Tumor stages were defined as localized tumors: amall tumors which can be respected and are usually curable; locally advanced tumors: large but localized tumors and/or with regional lymph node involvement, but without distant involvement. Potentially curable and advanced tumors: metastatic tumors (distant tumor lesions). Usually not curable [28].