EARLY DEATH AFTER A DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC SOLID CANCER-RAISING AWARENESS AND IDENTIFYING RISK FACTORS FROM THE SEER DATABASE.

BackgroundCancer death rates are declining, in part due to smoking cessation, better detection and new treatments; nevertheless, a large fraction of metastatic cancer patients die soon after diagnosis.Few studies and interventions focus on these patients.Our study aims to here characterize early mortality in a wide range of metastatic solid tumors.