Table 1 Description of the demographic characteristics evaluated in 161 cancer patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia in cancer patients.
Demographic Characteristic | Description, n (%) |
|---|---|
Sex | |
Female | 60 (37.3) |
Male | 101 (62.7) |
Age (years) | |
mean ± SD | 61.7 ± 11.9 |
median (min; max.) | 62.1 (27.2; 91.1) |
Ethnicity | |
Asian | 2 (1.2) |
White | 104 (64.6) |
Black | 27 (16.8) |
Mixed | 28 (17.4) |
Neoplasm, n (%) | |
Solid tumors | 121 (75.2%) |
Head and necka | 24 (14.9) |
GTI | 44 (27.3) |
Respiratory tract | 23 (14.3) |
Liver/bile ductes | 10 (6.2) |
Breast | 6 (3.7) |
Pancreas | 4 (2.5) |
Female genitourinary | 4 (2.5) |
Bones/cartilage/SST | 4 (2.5) |
Male genitourinary | 1 (0.6) |
Timo/parotid | 1 (0.6) |
Hematological neoplasms | 40 (24.8%) |
Multiple myeloma | 20 (12.4) |
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 14 (8.7) |
Hodgkin's lymphoma | 4 (2.5) |
Leukemias | 2 (1.2) |
Comorbidities | |
Systemic arterial hypertension | 75 (46.6) |
Diabetes mellitus | 33 (20.5) |
Congestive heart failure | 12 (7.5) |
COPD | 78 (48.4) |
Smoking | 88 (54.7) |
Splenectomy | 1 (0.6) |
AIDS/HIV | 8 (5) |
Metastasis | 90 (55.9) |
Karnofsky | |
90/100 | 62 (40.3) |
70/80 | 62 (40.3) |
< 70 | 30 (19.5) |
ECOG | |
0/1 | 86 (54.8) |
2/3/4 | 71 (45.2) |
