Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems

Table 2 Characteristics of patients in both VA and fee-for-service settings.

Characteristic	VA patients¹ (n = 342)	Fee-for-service patients² (n = 340)
Stage at diagnosis (%)
Metastatic	27	77
Non-metastatic	73	24
Charlson comorbidity score (Mean ± SD)	2.0 ±	± 1.0
Age in years (Mean ± SD)	67 ±	± 14
Gender (%)
Male	98	48
Female	1.7	52
Race (%)
White	63	73
Non-white	37	27

¹Missing value summary for VA: race (n = 6); ²Missing value summary for FFS: Charlson (n = 14), age (n = 47), gender (n = 11), race (n = 45),

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