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. 2017 Jun 29;117(4):470–477. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.202

Table 4. Cox regression analyses of the association between both frailty classifications and overall survival.

  Unadjusted
Adjusted model with mGAa
Adjusted model with oncologists classificationa
  N 288 HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value
Systematic mGA
mGA-non-frail 148            
mGA-frail 140 1.86 (1.36; 2.56) <0.001 1.61 (1.14; 2.27) 0.007    
Oncologists’ assessment
Onc-non-frail 182            
Onc-frail 104 1.94 (1.41; 2.66) <0.001     1.43 (0.97; 2.10) 0.071
Age (continuous)   1.02 (0.99; 1.05) 0.185 1.05 (1.01; 1.09) 0.010 1.06 (1.02; 1.10) 0.002
Gender
Male 162 1b   1b   1b  
Female 126 0,64 (0.46; 0.89) 0.007 0.62 (0.41; 0.93) 0.019 0.66 (0.45; 0.98) 0.040
Cancer type
Breast 30 1b   1b   1b  
Prostate 56 7.18 (2.20; 23.42) 0.001   n.s.   n.s.
Other gastrointestinal 34 19.31 (5.84; 63.79) <0.001 6.25 (1.75; 22.32) 0.005 7.59 (2.12; 27.20) 0.002
Lung 59 16.28 (5.05; 52.43) <0.001 5.17 (1.48; 18.13) 0.010 5.85 (1.67; 20.51) 0.006
Colorectal 83 4.37 (1.34; 14.26) 0.014   n.s.   n.s.
Other 26 8.40 (2.43; 29.05) 0.001   n.s.   n.s.
Stage
Local 73 1b   1b   1b  
Locally advanced 55 3.04 (1.69; 5.47) <0.001   n.s.   n.s.
Metastasised 160 4.63 (2.77; 7.74) <0.001 1.84 (0.95; 3.58) 0.071 1.77 (0.91; 3.43) 0.094
Treatment
Curative 91 1b   1b   1b  
Palliative chemotherapy 126 7.76 (4.67; 12.89) <0.001 2.54 (1.27; 5.11) 0.009 2.57 (1.28; 5.18) 0.008
Other palliative systemic cancer treatment 51 2.74 (1.49; 5.05) 0.001   n.s   n.s.
Non-systemic palliative treatment 20 9.47 (4.81; 18.67) <0.001 4.95 (2.31; 10.63) <0.001 6.01 (2.79; 12.97) <0.001
ECOG
0–1 244 1b   1b   1b  
2–4 43 1.79 (1.20; 2.66) 0.004   n.s.   n.s.
a

Cox regression analysis adjusted for age, sex, diagnosis, stage, treatment and ECOG-PS.

b

Reference category.

Bold numbers are statistically significant.