Table 1. Characteristics of patients and healthy controls included in this study.

	German		British
	Cases	Controls	Cases	Controls
N	576	1141	114	136
Gender
Female	243	324	45	55
Male	320	816	69	81
Missing	13	1	0	0
Age at diagnosis/recruitment
Mean	63.9	55.01	63.59	60.42
(standard deviation)	9.9	11.12	9.78	9.31
Median	65	58	64	61
(25%–75%)	(58–71)	(50–63)	(57–72)	(53–68)
Survival days
Mean	548.97		434.2
(standard deviation)	517.5		549.3
Median	387		305
(25%–75%)	(172–750)		(161.5–490)