Competing Causes of Death in Older Adults with Thyroid Cancer

Abstract We aim to provide insight into the cause-specific mortality of older adults with intellectual disability (ID), with and without Down syndrome (DS), and compare this to the general population. Immediate and primary cause of death were collected through medical files of 1,050 older adults with ID, 5 years after the start of the Healthy Ageing and Intellectual Disabilities (HA-ID) study. During the follow-up period, 207 (19.7%) participants died, of whom 54 (26.1%) had DS. Respiratory failure was the most common immediate cause of death (43.4%), followed by dehydration/malnutrition (20.8%), and cardiovascular diseases (9.4%). In adults with DS, the most common cause was respiratory disease (73.3%), infectious and bacterial diseases (4.4%), and diseases of the digestive system (4.4%). Diseases of the respiratory system also formed the largest group of primary causes of death (32.1%; 80.4% was due to pneumonia), followed by neoplasms (17.6%), and diseases of the circulatory system (8.2%). In adults with DS, the main primary cause was also respiratory diseases (51.1%), followed by dementia (22.2%).

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Competing causes of death in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer treated with concomitant boost radiation plus concurrent weekly cisplatin

Clinical & Translational Oncology ◽

10.1007/s12094-012-0925-9 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 321-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jaime Gómez-Millán ◽

Maria Dolores Toledo ◽

Yolanda Lupiañez ◽

Antonio Rueda ◽

Jose Manuel Trigo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Head And Neck Cancer ◽

Head And Neck ◽

Neck Cancer ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Advanced Head ◽

Concomitant Boost ◽

Competing Causes ◽

Boost Radiation ◽

Weekly Cisplatin

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Competing Causes of Death in Breast Cancer Patients

Fundamental Problems in Breast Cancer ◽

10.1007/978-1-4613-2049-4_31 ◽

1987 ◽

pp. 265-272

Author(s):

Maria Koch ◽

John Hanson ◽

Herta Gaedke ◽

Diane Wilson

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Breast Cancer Patients ◽

Competing Causes

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Long-term Survival and Competing Causes of Death in Men with Stage I Seminoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics ◽

10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.173 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 78 (3) ◽

pp. S60 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C.J. Beard ◽

M. Chen ◽

N.D. Arvold ◽

P.L. Nguyen ◽

A.K. Ng ◽

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Keyword(s):

Causes Of Death ◽

Stage I ◽

Term Survival ◽

Long Term Survival ◽

Stage I Seminoma ◽

Competing Causes

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Abstract P5-08-46: Competing causes of death among women with breast cancer in South East Asia: Effects of ethnicity, and age at diagnosis and stage at diagnosis

10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs15-p5-08-46 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

P Ho ◽

N Rijnberg ◽

SAM Gernaat ◽

MJ Emaus ◽

RDE Grobbee ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

East Asia ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Age At Diagnosis ◽

South East Asia ◽

Stage At Diagnosis ◽

Competing Causes

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Prognostic scores for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia under particular consideration of competing causes of death

Annals of Hematology ◽

10.1007/s00277-015-2316-0 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 94 (S2) ◽

pp. 209-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Markus Pfirrmann ◽

Michael Lauseker ◽

Verena S. Hoffmann ◽

Joerg Hasford

Keyword(s):

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia ◽

Myeloid Leukemia ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Prognostic Scores ◽

Competing Causes

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Temporal Trends in Mortality From Diseases of the Circulatory System After Treatment for Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Sweden (1973 to 2006)

Journal of Clinical Oncology ◽

10.1200/jco.2012.45.2714 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (11) ◽

pp. 1435-1441 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Sandra Eloranta ◽

Paul C. Lambert ◽

Jan Sjöberg ◽

Therese M.L. Andersson ◽

Magnus Björkholm ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Hodgkin Lymphoma ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Excess Mortality ◽

Temporal Trends ◽

Circulatory System ◽

Population Based ◽

Competing Causes ◽

Treatment Related Mortality ◽

Related Mortality

PurposeHodgkin lymphoma (HL) survival in Sweden has improved dramatically over the last 40 years, but little is known about the extent to which efforts aimed at reducing long-term treatment-related mortality have contributed to the improved prognosis.MethodsWe used population-based data from Sweden to estimate the contribution of treatment-related mortality caused by diseases of the circulatory system (DCS) to temporal trends in excess HL mortality among 5,462 patients diagnosed at ages 19 to 80 between 1973 and 2006. Flexible parametric survival models were used to estimate excess mortality. In addition, we used recent advances in statistical methodology to estimate excess mortality in the presence of competing causes of death.ResultsExcess DCS mortality within 20 years after diagnosis has decreased continually since the mid-1980s and is expected to further decrease among patients diagnosed in the modern era. Age at diagnosis and sex were important predictors for excess DCS mortality, with advanced age and male sex being associated with higher excess DCS mortality. However, when accounting for competing causes of death, we found that excess DCS mortality constitutes a relatively small proportion of the overall mortality among patients with HL in Sweden.ConclusionExcess DCS mortality is no longer a common source of mortality among Swedish patients with HL. The main causes of death among long-term survivors today are causes other than HL, although other (non-DCS) excess mortality also persists for as long as 20 years after diagnosis, particularly among older patients.

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