Effects of environmental temperature on mortality in cancer patients in palliative care.

IF 2.5 2区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

BMC Palliative Care Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1186/s12904-025-01808-0

Encinas Paloma, Garcia Naomi, Emilio Gutierrez

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Abstract

Background: Despite advances in cancer treatment, the incurability of the disease is the basis for palliative care.

Methods: A sample of 334 oncological patients in palliative care underwent a two-year assessment to determine the effects of environmental temperature on mortality.

Results: The results revealed a positive relationship between environmental temperature and the mortality rates of patients under palliative care, with a higher number of deaths occurring in the warmer months. Thus, a 1ºC increase in temperature correlated with an 8.1% increase in mortality for patients dying in the first week of care, 4.8% for those dying within 15 days, and 3.8% for those dying within 30 days. However, for patients surviving more than 30 days, the effect of temperature decreased, with no significant effects of temperature being observed.

Conclusions: Thus, environmental temperature could be a relevant factor in the mortality and survival rates of the palliative care program.

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环境温度对姑息治疗中癌症患者死亡率的影响。

背景：尽管癌症治疗取得了进展，但这种疾病的不可治愈性是姑息治疗的基础。方法：对接受姑息治疗的334例肿瘤患者进行为期两年的评估，以确定环境温度对死亡率的影响。结果：研究结果显示，环境温度与姑息治疗患者的死亡率呈正相关，在温暖的月份死亡人数较多。因此，温度每升高1℃，治疗第一周死亡的患者死亡率增加8.1%，15天内死亡的患者死亡率增加4.8%，30天内死亡的患者死亡率增加3.8%。然而，对于存活超过30天的患者，温度的作用减弱，没有观察到温度的明显影响。结论：因此，环境温度可能是影响姑息治疗方案死亡率和生存率的一个相关因素。

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BMC Palliative Care HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES-

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

9.70%

发文量

201

审稿时长

21 weeks

期刊介绍： BMC Palliative Care is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the clinical, scientific, ethical and policy issues, local and international, regarding all aspects of hospice and palliative care for the dying and for those with profound suffering related to chronic illness.