Clinical Study
Chronic Diseases among Older Cancer Survivors
Table 1
Characteristics of older cancer patients and non-cancer patients at time of cancer diagnosis or reference date.
| | | Cancer patients | Non-cancer patients | | | () | () | | | 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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| | 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) | | |
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1Survival time: time from date of diagnosis or reference date until death or end of follow-up.
2Number of chronic diseases excluding cancer.
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