Table 2 Baseline patient characteristics according to the mGA and the oncologists’ classification

			Modified geriatric assessment					The oncologists classification
			mGA-frail		mGA-non-frail			Onc-frail		Onc-non-frail
	N (288)	%	N (140)	%	N (148)	%	P -value	N (104)	%	N (182)	%	P -value
Age, mean (s.d.)	76.9 (5.1)		77.5 (5.2)		76.2 (5.0)		0.032 ^a	77.2 (5.4)		76.6 (5.0)		0.346^a
Gender
Female	126	44	64	46	62	42	0.513^b	43	41	81	45	0.604^b
Cancer type
Colorectal	83	29	39	28	44	30		18	17	64	35
Lung	59	21	35	25	24	16		34	33	25	14
Prostate	56	19	22	16	34	23	0.045 ^b	25	24	31	17	<0.001 ^b
Other gastrointestinal	34	12	19	14	15	10		8	8	25	14
Breast	30	10	9	6	21	14		6	6	24	13
Other	26	9	16	11	10	7		13	13	13	7
Stage
Localised	73	25	30	21	43	29		12	12	61	34
Locally advanced	55	19	23	16	32	22	0.091^b	22	21	32	18	<0.001 ^b
Distant metastasis	160	56	87	62	73	49		70	67	89	49
ECOG PS
0–1	244	85	106	76	138	93		62	60	181	100
2–4	43	15	33	24	10	7	<0.001 ^b	42	40	0		<0.001 ^b
Missing	1		1					0		1
Treatment
Curative^c	91	32	31	22	60	41		14	14	77	42
Palliative chemotherapy	126	44	75	54	51	35		60	58	66	36
Other palliative systemic cancer treatment	51	18	22	16	29	20	0.002 ^b	21	20	30	17	<0.001 ^b
Non-systemic palliative treatment^d	20	7	12	9	8	5		9	9	9	5

^aIndependent samples t-test.
^bPearson χ²-test.
^cReferred for neoadjuvant treatment, adjuvant treatment after curative surgery or curative radiotherapy.
^dRadiotherapy, palliative surgery or palliative care.
Bold numbers are statistically significant.

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