Sepsis As a Cause of Death Among Elderly Cancer Patients

The goal of this retrospective study is to explore the association between sepsis and morality among the elderly cancer patients. Data were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results( SEER) database using SEER\*stat software. The study included patients aged 65 years or more who were diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2021. The extracted data included age, race, marital status, sex, stage, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Multiple primary session was used to calculate the standardized Mortality ratio (SMR) as Observed/Expected with excess risk/10,000 and significance was achieved at 0.05.