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Table 2 Distribution of baseline characteristics by age groupa

From: Systemic therapy in younger and elderly patients with advanced biliary cancer: sub-analysis of ABC-02 and twelve other prospective trials

 

Covariate

<40 years

Total N = 36

N (%)

≥40 years

Total N = 1127

N (%)

P-valueb

<70 years

Total N = 903

N (%)

≥70 years

Total N = 260

N (%)

P-valueb

Gender

Female

16 (44)

597 (53)

0.31

482 (53)

131 (50)

0.39

Male

20 (56)

530 (47)

 

421 (47)

129 (50)

ECOG performance status

0

10 (28)

350 (31)

0.59

285 (32)

75 (29)

0.24

1

16 (44)

572 (51)

 

455 (50)

133 (51)

2

4 (11)

81 (7)

 

60 (7)

25 (10)

Not available

6 (17)

124 (11)

 

103 (11)

27 (10)

Disease Stage

Locally advanced

9 (25)

295 (26)

0.80

233 (26)

71 (27)

0.43

Metastatic

27 (75)

800 (71)

 

652 (72)

175 (67)

Not available

0 (0)

32 (3)

 

18 (2)

14 (5)

Treatment

Combination

23 (64)

809 (72)

0.20

650 (72)

182 (70)

0.48

Monotherapy

12 (33)

301 (27)

 

239 (26)

74 (28)

Not available

1 (3)

17 (2)

 

14 (2)

4 (2)

  1. ECOG performance status: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status
  2. aDue to rounding, all percentages in Table 2 may not equal 100%. bChi-squared test; performed excluding the category “not available”