Abstract
INTRODUCTION: It was aimed to reveal the general characteristics of oncology patients referred to emergency service of chest diseases training hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on the socio-demographic data, the referral symptoms and emergency diagnoses of the subjects diagnosed with malignity who referred to emergency service along one month. RESULTS: Of 118 subjects included in the study, 13 (84.7 %) were women and 105 (84.7 %) were men and the average age was 61.2 years. Frequent age interval was between 50-59. The symptoms most often seen in our cases were dypnea (50 %), pain (27.9 %), fever (14.4 %) and hemoptysis (10.1 %), whereas nausea (9.3%), cough-expectoration (7.6%) and weakness (5.9%) were observed less frequently. 87.5% of non-small cell lung carcinoma and 23.5% of small cell lung carcinoma had advanced stage lung cancer. The most frequent encountered emergency diagnoses were respiratory insufficiency in 49 (41.5%) cases, bone metastasis in 14 (11.8%) and brain metastasis in 13 (11%). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was observed that the most frequent complaints for emergency deferral were dyspnea and pain and the most frequent emergency diagnoses were respiratory insufficiency and metastatic disease. General requirement was for palliative treatments and the mortality was lower.
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