RESUMEN
This retrospective study included 98 patients who developed oncologic emergencies and presented to Radiation Oncology Department of Assiut University Hospital between the period of January 1999 and May 2000. The incidence of oncologic emergencies was 7% of all patients. The most common type of oncologic emergency encountered was neurologic emergency [spinal cord compression and increased intra cranial tension], it represented 56.12% of the patients, followed by metabolic emergency, superior vena cava syndrome, surgical emergency, urologic emergency and tumor lysis syndrome in 13.2%, 10.25%, 9.18% and 2%, respectively. Various treatment modalities were used including radiotherapy in 63% of the patients, supportive measures in 20%, surgery in 8%, combined modalities in 8% and chemotherapy in only 1%. Fifty-nine patients have been saved by urgent management and could survive with good control, while nineteen patients showed no response and the death rate was 20.4%