Table 1.
Demographics of the expert panel (n = 39)
Healthcare professionals (years) | |
Mean age | 47 |
Mean Years in clinical practice | 17.1 |
Profession (%) | |
Nurse | 10 |
Physician | 85 |
Researcher in Geriatric Oncology (without clinical activities) | 8 |
Specialty (for physicians) (%) | |
Medical oncology | 30 |
Geriatrics | 23 |
Other specialty … | 23 |
Surgery | 21 |
Organ-based specialist | 10 |
Primary care | 8 |
Cancer type involved with (physicians and nurses)a (%) | |
Colorectal cancer | 33 |
All cancer types | 31 |
Breast cancer | 23 |
Prostate cancer | 21 |
Lung cancer | 18 |
Which treatments do you provide to patients yourself (physicians and nurses)?a (%) | |
Chemotherapy | 36 |
Targeted and/or immune therapy | 36 |
Hormone therapy | 36 |
Surgery | 31 |
None | 23 |
Other | 18 |
Radiation therapy | 13 |
aMultiple answers per participant possible