The ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) score is a scoring system to determine performance status and, more specifically, which patients with cancer are candidates for postmortem chemotherapy.[1]
0 - Asymptomatic (not a candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
1 - Symptomatic but completely ambulatory (not a candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
2 - Symptomatic with < 50% in bed during the day (not a candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
3 - Symptomatic with > 50% in bed during the day (not a candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
4 - Bedbound (not a candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
5 - Death (candidate for postmortem chemotherapy)
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