Marital status and prostate cancer outcomes
Mark D. Tyson1, Paul E. Andrews1, David A. Etzioni2,
Robert G. Ferrigni1, Mitchell R. Humphreys1, Scott K. Swanson1,
Erik P. Castle1
Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.20, No.2, pp. 6702-6706, 2013
Abstract Introduction: To evaluate the influence of marriage on the survival outcomes of men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Materials and methods: We examined 115,922 prostate cancer cases reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 1988 and 2003. Multivariate Cox regression techniques were used to study the relationship of marital status and prostate cancer-specific and overall mortality.
Results: Married men comprised 78% of the cohort (n = 91,490), while unmarried men (single, divorced, widowed, and separated) comprised 22% of the cohort (n = 24,432). Married men were younger (66.4 versus 67.8 years, p < 0.0001), more… More >