ArticleOncotarget2017
The influence of marital status on the survival of patients with esophageal cancer: a population-based, propensity-matched study.
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- Marital status and survival in patients with soft tissue sarcoma: A population-based, propensity-matched study.Cancer medicine · 2019Article
- Marital status and survival in patients with rectal cancer: A population-based STROBE cohort study.Medicine · 2018Article
- A nomogram to predict long-time survival for patients with M1 diseases of esophageal cancer.Journal of Cancer · 2018Article
- Influence of Caregiver Presence During Physician Office Visits on Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation Therapy for Esophageal Cancer.Advances in radiation oncologyArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsMultiple studies have shown that marital status is associated with the survival of various types of cancer patients. However, there has not been adequate evidence of the association between marital status and the survival of patients with esophageal cancer (EC). We aimed to investigate the effect of marital status on survival of EC patients.
methodsWe identified 15,598 EC patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Meanwhile, propensity scores for marital status, which were calculated for each patient using a nonparsimonious multivariable logistic regression model, were used to match 6,319 unmarried patients with 9,279 married patients. We performed Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariate Cox regression to analyze the association between marital status and the overall survival (OS) and EC cause-specific survival (CSS) of EC patients before matching and after matching.
resultsWe matched 2,986 unmarried patients with 2,986 married patients. Unmarried patients had poorer OS than married patients before matching (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.22; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.18-1.27; P < 0.0001) and after matching (HR: 1.20; 95% CI: 1.13-1.27; P < 0.0001) and poorer CSS than married patients before matching (HR: 1.21; 95% CI: 1.16-1.26; P < 0.0001) and after matching (HR: 1.17; 95% CI: 1.10-1.24; P < 0.0001). Further analysis showed that among different unmarried patients, widowed patients had the poorest OS (HR: 1.46; 95% CI: 1.38-1.55; P < 0.0001) and CSS (HR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.34-1.52; P < 0.0001) compared with married patients.
conclusionsUnmarried EC patients had poorer survival rates than married EC patients. Meanwhile, widowed patients with EC had the highest risk of death compared with single, married, and divorced patients.
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