Research Article

Clinical Experience of Patients Referred to a Multidisciplinary Cardiac Oncology Clinic: An Observational Study

Table 1

Patient demographics ( = 428).

(%)

Median age at diagnosis60 years (r: 18–90 years)
Gender
 (i) Female300 (70.1%)
 (ii) Male128 (29.9%)
Primary tumour type
 (i) Breast246 (57.5%)
 (ii) Gastrointestinal63 (14.7%)
 (iii) Genitourinary52 (12.1%)
 (iv) Haematological31 (7.2%)
 (v) Lung17 (4.0%)
 (vi) Other*19 (4.4%)
Cardiac risk factors (median)2 (r: 0–7)
 (i) Smoker188 (43.9%)
 (ii) Hypercholesterolemia173 (40.4%)
 (iii) Obesity (BMI > 30)123 (28.7%)
 (iv) Hypertension114 (26.6%)
 (v) Diabetes 57 (13.3%)
 (vi) Coronary artery disease21 (4.9%)

Other tumour sites: gynaecologic, skin, sarcoma, neurologic, amyloidosis, thyroid, musculoskeletal.