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The influence of marital status on stage at diagnosis and survival of patients with colorectal cancer.
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- Marital status and survival in cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Development of a prognostic nomogram for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma integrating marital status.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
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- Marital status as an independent prognostic factor in male breast cancer: a SEER-based cohort study.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025Article
- A retrospective analysis of key predictors and patient outcomes: Using artificial intelligence for precision survival prediction in colorectal cancer.German medical science : GMS e-journal · 2025Article
- Investigating the role of county-level colorectal cancer screening rates on stage at diagnosis of colorectal cancer in rural Georgia.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2024Article
- The influence of marital status at diagnosis on survival of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Oral health related quality of life of oral cancer patients treated with radiotherapy alone or with chemotherapy in a tertiary referral centre in Sri Lanka.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- A nomogram for individually predicting the overall survival in colonic adenocarcinoma patients presenting with perineural invasion: a population study based on SEER database.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Survival Differences and Potential Geographic Determinants Among Men and Women in Utah.American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting · 2022Article
- Relationship between marital status and survival in patients with lung adenocarcinoma: A SEER-based study.Medicine · 2022Article
- The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Staging, Prognosis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Prognostic Factors of Primary Malignant Bone Neoplasms with Bone Metastasis at Initial Diagnosis: A Population-Based Study.Journal of oncology · 2022Article
- Impact of socioeconomic status on cancer staging, survival in non-small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Association of marital status with stage and survival in patients with mycosis fungoides: A population-based study.Cancer medicine · 2021Article
- Ferroptosis-related genes are potential prognostic molecular markers for patients with colorectal cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Marital status was found to be an independent prognostic factor for survival in various cancer types, but it hasn't been fully studied in colorectal cancer (CRC). The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database was used to compare survival outcomes with marital status in each stage. In total, 112, 776 eligible patients were identified. Patients in the widowed group were more frequently elderly women, more common of colon cancer, and more stage I/II in tumor stage (P < 0.001), but the surgery rate was comparable to that for the married group (94.72% VS 94.10%). Married CRC patients had better 5year cause-specific survival (CSS) than those unmarried (P < 0.05). Further analysis showed that widowed patients always presented the lowest CSS compared with that of other' group. Widowed patients had 5% reduction 5-year CSS compared with married patients at stage I (94.8% vs 89.8%, P < 0.001), 9.4% reduction at stage II (85.9% vs 76.5%, P < 0.001), 16.7% reduction at stage III (70.6% vs 53.9%, P < 0.001) and 6.2% reduction at stage IV(14.4% VS 8.2%, P < 0.001). These results showed that unmarried patients were at greater risk of cancer specific mortality. Despite favorable clinicpathological characteristics, widowed patients were at highest risk of death compared with other groups.
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