Palliative radiotherapy of bone metastases in octogenarians: How do the oldest olds respond? Results from a tertiary cancer center with 288 treated patients

Table 1 Patient characteristics of 288 octogenarian cancer patients with bone metastases receiving radiotherapy between 2009 and 2019

	n	%
Gender
Male	167	58.0
Female	121	42.0
Age
80–84 years	203	70.5
85–89 years	85	29.5
ECOG
0	49	17.0
1	141	49.0
2	91	31.6
3	6	2.1
4	1	0.3
Primary cancer
Genitourinary	117	40.6
Breast	67	23.3
Lung	40	13.9
Gastrointestinal	18	6.3
Hepatocellular/pancreatobiliary	10	3.5
Gynecological^a	9	3.1
Thyroid	3	1.0
Head-and-neck	2	0.7
Skin	2	0.7
Others^b	3	1.0
Unknown	17	5.9
Hospitalization
Inpatient	172	59.7
Outpatient	116	40.3

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