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. 2024 Mar 20;15(4):1055–1067. doi: 10.1007/s41999-023-00919-2

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