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ABSTRACT: Background
Previous studies have shown that marital status was associated with stages and survival in patients with melanoma or Merkel cell carcinoma. To date, the impacts of marital status on stage and survival in patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) have not been determined yet.Methods
A total of 3375 eligible cases diagnosed from 2004 to 2015 were included from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Association of marital status with stage and survival in patients with MF was analyzed.Results
Married patients were more likely to be diagnosed at T1 stage (p = 0.041). And married patients were less likely to present with lymph node involvement (p = 0.007). More favorable overall survival (p < 0.001) and cancer-specific survival (p < 0.001) were demonstrated in married patients as compared with divorced patients or widowed patients. A clinically feasible prognostic model including marital status, age, sex, race, and stage at presentation was constructed.Conclusion
Married marital status was associated with earlier stage at diagnosis and longer survival compared with divorced or widowed marital status in patients with MF.
SUBMITTER: Xing LX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8525132 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xing Ling-Xiao LX Zhang Jing J Shen Hui H Tang Xiao-Lu XL He Lu L Wu Jia-Zhu JZ Li Jian-Yong JY Miao Yi Y
Cancer medicine 20210904 20
<h4>Background</h4>Previous studies have shown that marital status was associated with stages and survival in patients with melanoma or Merkel cell carcinoma. To date, the impacts of marital status on stage and survival in patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) have not been determined yet.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 3375 eligible cases diagnosed from 2004 to 2015 were included from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Association of marital status with stage and surviva ...[more]