{"id":117645,"date":"2019-07-03T06:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/does-marital-status-affect-prognosis-after-breast-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T06:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:11:30","slug":"does-marital-status-affect-prognosis-after-breast-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/does-marital-status-affect-prognosis-after-breast-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Does marital status affect prognosis after breast cancer diagnosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In a <em>Cancer Medicine<\/em> study of 298,434 patients diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2012, married patients had a better prognosis than patients who were single, who in turn had a better prognosis than those who were divorced, separated, or widowed.<\/p>\n<p>When considering race and tumor characteristics, the better prognosis of single patients was only observed in white patients and in patients with tumors expressing estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, a better prognosis was maintained for married patients among all age subgroups, but for single patients, it was seen only in those older than 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our study demonstrates that patients with breast cancer could gain significant benefits from marriage and indicates the importance of psychosocial support to patients with unfavorable marriage,&#8221; said co-author Zhijun Dai, of Zhejiang University, in China.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Penny Smith<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1002\/<wbr>cam4.<wbr>2352 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Cancer Medicine study of 298,434 patients diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2012, married patients had a better prognosis than patients who were single, who in turn had a better prognosis than those who were divorced, separated, or widowed. When considering race and tumor characteristics, the better prognosis of single patients was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[315,119,536,293,309,334],"class_list":["post-117645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-science-news","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-couples","tag-medicine-health","tag-mental-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}