Results
The subjects of this study included 427 hospitalized patients with advanced cancer; 222 of them were males. The median age was 66 years (range: 27–93). With regard to the primary cancer origins, lung cancer was the largest group (19.9%), followed by liver (18.0%) and colorectal (11.0%) cancers. The median survival was 13 days (ranging from 1 to 418 days). More than three-fourths of these patients had an ECOG performance status of 3 or 4