Changes over time in the effect of marital status on cancer survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of all-cause and cause-specific mortality are higher among unmarried than married individuals. Cancer survival is also poorer in the unmarried population. Recently, some studies have found that the excess all-cause mortality of the unmarried has increased over time, and the same pattern has been shown for some specific causes of death. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there has been a similar change over time in marital status differences in cancer survival.

Methods

Discrete-time hazard regression models for cancer deaths among more than 440,000 women and men diagnosed with cancer 1970-2007 at age 30-89 were estimated, using register data encompassing the entire Norwegian population. More than 200,000 cancer deaths during over 2 million

SUBMITTER: Kravdal H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3206482 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature