ArticleAmerican journal of men's health2017
Impact of Marital Status on Tumor Stage at Diagnosis and on Survival in Male Breast 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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- Impact of Marital Status on Prognosis of Patients With Invasive Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using SEER Database.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- "Partner", "Caregiver", or "Co-Survivor"-Might the Label We Give the Partners of Cancer Patients Affect the Health Outcome of the Patients and Their Partners?Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Article
- Dynamic changes in marital status and survival in women with breast cancer: a population-based study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Male Breast Cancer Patients' Perspectives on Their Health Care Situation: A Mixed-Methods Study.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- A large-cohort retrospective study of metastatic patterns and prognostic outcomes between inflammatory and non-inflammatory breast cancer.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2020Article
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- Imaging at diagnosis impacts cancer-specific survival among patients with cancer of the oropharynx.Cancer · 2019Article
- Marital Status and Survival of Patients with Hormone Receptor-Positive Male Breast Cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Population-Based Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2018Article
- Survival rates are higher in married patients with biliary tract cancer: a population-based study.Oncotarget · 2018Article
- The Effect of Marital Status on Survival of Patients with Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: A SEER Database Analysis.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2018Article
- Marital status and survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: an analysis of 70006 patients in the SEER database.Oncotarget · 2017Article
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Abstract
The effect of marital status (MS) on survival varies according to cancer type and gender. There has been no report on the impact of MS on survival in male breast cancer (MBC). This study aims to determine the influence of MS on tumor stage at diagnosis and survival in MBC. Men with MBC ≥18 years of age in the SEER database from 1990 to 2011 were included in the study. MS was classified as married and unmarried (including single, divorced, separated, widowed). Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the 5-year cancer-specific survival. Multivariate regression analyses were done to determine the effect of MS on presence of Stage IV disease at diagnosis and on cancer-specific mortality. The study included 3,761 men; 2,647 (70.4%) were married. Unmarried men were more often diagnosed with Stage IV MBC compared with married (10.7% vs. 5.5%, p < .001). Unmarried men (compared with married) were significantly less likely to undergo surgery (92.4% vs. 96.7%, p < .001). Overall unmarried males with Stages II, III, and IV MBC have significantly worse 5-year cancer-specific survival compared with married. On multivariate analysis, being unmarried was associated with increased hazard of death (HR = 1.43, p < .001) and increased likelihood of Stage IV disease at diagnosis ( OR = 1.96, p < .001). Unmarried males with breast cancer are at greater risk for Stage IV disease at diagnosis and poorer outcomes compared with married males.
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