Table 6 Agreement between primary reasons for not recommending chemotherapy extracted from patient charts vs. patient age and Charlson co-morbidity index
Oncologists’ reasons for not recommending adjuvant chemotherapy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-morbidities N = 62 (100%) | Age N = 25 (100%) | Frailty N = 24 (100%) | Total | ||||
Charlson comorbidity index | |||||||
0 | 22 | (35) | 15 | (60) | 11 | (46) | 48 |
1 | 14 | (23) | 5 | (20) | 6 | (25) | 25 |
2 or more | 26 | (42) | 5 | (20) | 7 | (29) | 38 |
Age | |||||||
<65 | 6 | (10) | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
65-69 | 3 | (5) | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
70-74 | 9 | (15) | 0 | 3 | (13) | 12 | |
≥ 75 | 44 | (70) | 25 | (100) | 21 | (87) | 90 |