Marriage Increases Cancer Survival Rate

This post is based off of a story reported on WebMD.com and a study conducted by Cancer Registry of Norway.

A new study was conducted which confirmed that married people are more likely to survive cancer compared to those who remained single for life.

Marrying, for some, could mean the end of their joyous life while others pursue to tying the knot for innumerable reasons aside from love. However, in some studies, it was found out that aside from having a new partner in facing life’s challenges, being married could at least increase one’s survival chance with cancer.

In the study, the researchers tracked the number of cancer deaths for 13 common cancers, including breast, prostate, malignant melanoma, colon, and lung, in more than 440,000 Norwegian men and women from 1970 to 2007. It was found out that during that 40-year period, those never-married men and women were 18% and 17% respectively more likely to die from cancer than married men.  More recently during the 2005-2007 time period, never-married men were 35% and single ladies were 22% more likely to die from cancer.

According to the researchers, the differences in survival between unmarried and married people with cancer could possibly be explained by better general health at the time of diagnosis or better adherence to treatment regimes and follow-ups. They also added that the healthy lifestyle and amount of emotional support gotten from a partner makes the difference since having a partner that nudges to have regular clinic visits pushes the other half to be diagnosed and treated earlier. However, one weakness of the study is that researchers did not have enough information about unmarried people to know whether they were truly single or living with someone.

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