Table 1 Demographic characteristics of people with comorbid cancer and dementia compared to those with cancer or dementia alone and the general population aged 50 and over
Characteristic | Comorbid cancer and dementia (n = 3616), n (%) | Cancer alone (n = 112,772), n (%) | Dementia alone (n = 45,983), n (%) | General population aged 50 and overa (n = 1,151,503), n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender (% female) | 1832 (50.7) | 54,744 (48.5) | 30,178 (65.6) | 595,064 (51.7) |
Age in years, mean (s.d.) | 83 (7) | 69 (12) | 82 (8) | 66 (11) |
Age group | ||||
< 50b | 2 (0.1) | 6672 (5.9) | 117 (0.3) | 0 |
50–74 | 477 (13.2) | 67,318 (59.7) | 7418 (16.1) | 900,360 (78.2) |
≥ 75 | 3137 (86.8) | 38,782 (34.4) | 38,448 (83.6) | 251,143 (21.8) |
Cancer type | ||||
Other | 1447 (40.0) | 50,614 (44.9) | – | – |
Prostate | 757 (20.9) | 17,799 (15.8) | – | – |
Breast | 724 (20.0) | 19,974 (17.7) | – | – |
Bowel | 415 (11.5) | 12,747 (11.3) | – | – |
Lung | 273 (7.5) | 11,638 (10.3) | – | – |
Dementia type | ||||
Unspecified Dementia | 1545 (42.7) | – | 20,857 (45.4) | – |
Alzheimer’s Disease | 1093 (30.2) | – | 13,458 (29.3) | – |
Vascular Dementia | 771 (21.3) | – | 8836 (19.2) | – |
Mixed Dementia | 100 (2.8) | – | 1260 (2.7) | – |
Dementia with Lewy bodies | 56 (1.5) | – | 814 (1.8) | – |
Frontotemporal Dementia | 22 (0.6) | – | 203 (0.4) | – |
Parkinson’s Dementia | 18 (0.5) | – | 367 (0.8) | – |
Other | 11 (0.3) | – | 188 (0.4) | – |
Ethnicity | ||||
White | 2297 (63.5) | 66,561 (59.0) | 28,900 (62.8) | 67.2 |
Not stated | 343 (9.5) | 8891 (7.9) | 3865 (8.4) | 6.0 |
Asian | 30 (0.8) | 1344 (1.2) | 669 (1.5) | 3.4 |
Black | 17 (0.5) | 475 (0.4) | 200 (0.4) | 0.9 |
Other | 18 (0.5) | 390 (0.3) | 205 (0.4) | 0.5 |
Mixed | 4 (0.1) | 186 (0.2) | 80 (0.2) | 0.2 |
Missing | 907 (25.1) | 34,925 (31.0) | 12,064 (26.2) | 21.7 |
Region | ||||
Yorkshire and the Humber | 1217 (33.7) | 33,393 (29.6) | 14,690 (31.9) | 29.0 |
East of England | 730 (20.2) | 24,226 (21.5) | 9334 (20.3) | 21.8 |
East Midlands | 546 (15.1) | 19,189 (17.0) | 7254 (15.8) | 17.5 |
South West | 518 (14.3) | 17,055 (15.1) | 6555 (14.3) | 15.7 |
South East | 279 (7.7) | 9365 (8.3) | 3956 (8.6) | 8.7 |
North East | 93 (2.6) | 2956 (2.6) | 1150 (2.5) | 2.5 |
West Midlands | 73 (2.0) | 2251 (2.0) | 714 (1.6) | 1.9 |
North West | 62 (1.7) | 1583 (1.4) | 707 (1.5) | 1.3 |
London | 51 (1.4) | 1639 (1.5) | 852 (1.9) | 1.6 |
Outside of Englandc | 1 (0.0) | 150 (0.1) | 66 (0.1) | 0.0 |
Missing | 46 (1.3) | 965 (0.9) | 705 (1.5) | 0.1 |
IMD | ||||
10% most deprived | 314 (8.7) | 8081 (7.2) | 4280 (9.3) | 7.5 |
10–20% | 296 (8.2) | 8184 (7.3) | 3877 (8.4) | 7.5 |
20–30% | 298 (8.2) | 8782 (7.8) | 3738 (8.1) | 7.9 |
30–40% | 360 (10.0) | 9803 (8.7) | 4752 (10.3) | 8.8 |
40–50% | 403 (11.1) | 11,984 (10.6) | 5101 (11.1) | 10.8 |
50–60% | 453 (12.5) | 13,927 (12.3) | 6037 (13.1) | 12.4 |
60–70% | 354 (9.8) | 11,744 (10.4) | 4667 (10.1) | 10.9 |
70–80% | 368 (10.2) | 12,306 (10.9) | 4770 (10.4) | 12.1 |
80–90% | 353 (9.8) | 12,236 (10.9) | 3998 (8.7) | 12.5 |
10% least deprived | 217 (6.0) | 8976 (8.0) | 2653 (5.8) | 9.7 |
Missing | 200 (5.5) | 6749 (6.0) | 2110 (4.6) | 0.0 |
Living in a care home | 1582 (43.8) | 5583 (5.0) | 24,290 (52.8) | 19,489 (1.7) |
With comorbidity | 2472 (68.4) | 56,615 (50.2) | 24,811 (54.0) | – |
Number of additional comorbidities | ||||
One | 1111 (44.9) | 32,064 (56.6) | 12,803 (51.6) | – |
Two | 755 (30.5) | 15,426 (27.2) | 6920 (27.9) | – |
Three | 342 (13.8) | 6172 (10.9) | 3211 (12.9) | – |
Four | 166 (6.7) | 2079 (3.7) | 1244 (5.0) | – |
Five | 62 (2.5) | 633 (1.1) | 471 (1.9) | – |
> Five | 36 (1.5) | 241 (0.4) | 162 (0.6) | – |
Died within 12 monthsd | 1140 (31.5) | 25,538 (22.6) | 7579 (16.5) | – |