University of California researchers used data from more than 393,000 men and 389,000 women diagnosed with one of the 10 cancers which cause the most deaths between 2000 and 2009 to study the influence of certain behaviors on survival.
Marital status, age, gender, address, ethnicity, economic status, year of diagnosis, and date cancer treatment started were assessed for each patient. All patients were followed up until 2012.
Up to 27% more deaths among single people
According to this study carried out at the initiative of the Stanford Cancer Research Center, married cancer patients can survive the disease longer than single patients. Overall, men who live alone had up to 27% higher death rate than married men, while single women had up to 19% higher death rate than married women found. California researchers.
“It’s probably because married patients differ from unmarried patients in many ways” points out Dr. Scarlett Lin Gomez, lead author of the study.
“They are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors, eat better diets, engage in more physical activity, and participate more readily in early disease detection programs”. But the researchers also insist on the protective effect of economic resources, which are much better among married people than among single people.
Recently another study had shown that being married also improves the chances of survival. after heart surgery.
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