Table 1.
Characteristics of older cancer patients and non-cancer patients at time of cancer diagnosis or reference date.
| Cancer patients | Non-cancer patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 3835) | (N = 11973) | |||
| Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | |
| Age (years) | ||||
| Men | 71.95 | (7.35) | 70.87 | (7.13) |
| Women | 73.22 | (8.42) | 72.90 | (8.27) |
| Survival time (years)1 | ||||
| Men | 2.92 | (3.06) | 3.87 | (3.15) |
| Women | 3.32 | (3.39) | 4.17 | (3.27) |
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| N | (%) | N | (%) | |
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| Sex | ||||
| Men | 2163 | (56) | 6179 | (52) |
| Women | 1672 | (44) | 5794 | (48) |
| Number of chronic diseases at baseline2 | ||||
| 0 | 846 | (22) | 2617 | (22) |
| 1 | 908 | (24) | 2916 | (24) |
| 2 | 752 | (20) | 2288 | (19) |
| 3 | 534 | (14) | 1682 | (14) |
| ≥4 | 795 | (21) | 2470 | (21) |
| Five most common tumour sites | ||||
| Colon/rectum | 675 | (18) | ||
| Prostate | 573 | (15) | ||
| Bronchus/lung | 550 | (14) | ||
| Breast | 493 | (13) | ||
| Bladder | 218 | (7) | ||
1Survival time: time from date of diagnosis or reference date until death or end of follow-up.
2Number of chronic diseases excluding cancer.