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)		0.032a	77.2 (5.4)		76.6 (5.0)		0.346a
Gender
Female	126	44	64	46	62	42	0.513b	43	41	81	45	0.604b
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	0.045b	25	24	31	17	<0.001b
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	0.091b	22	21	32	18	<0.001b
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	<0.001b	42	40	0		<0.001b
Missing	1		1					0		1
Treatment
Curativec	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	0.002b	21	20	30	17	<0.001b
Non-systemic palliative treatmentd	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.