BACKGROUND: Marital status has been associated with outcomes in several @entity5 sites including @entity0 in the literature, but little is known about @entity694 , the fourth most common @entity5 in the US. METHODS: A total of 127,753 @entity1 with @entity694 were identified who were diagnosed between 1992 and 2006 in the US Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Marital status consisted of married, single, separated/divorced and widowed. Chi-square tests were used to examine the association between marital status and other variables. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate survival curves. Cox proportional hazards models were fit to estimate the effect of marital status on survival. RESULTS: Married @entity1 were more likely to be diagnosed at an earlier stage (and for @entity1 also at an older age) compared with single and separated/divorced @entity1 , and more likely to receive surgical treatment than all other marital groups (all p<0.0001). The five-year survival rate for the single was six percentage points lower than the married for both @entity1 and @entity1 . After controlling for age, race, @entity5 stage and surgery receipt, married @entity1 had a significantly lower risk of @entity204 from @entity5 (for @entity1 , HR: 0.86, CI: 0.82-0.90; for @entity1 , HR: 0.87, CI: 0.83-0.91) compared with the single. Within the same @entity5 stage, the survival differences between the single and the married were strongest for localized and regional stages, which had overall middle-range survival rates compared to in situ or distant stage so that support from marriage could make a big difference. CONCLUSIONS: Marriage was associated with better outcomes of @entity694 for both @entity1 and @entity1 , and being single was associated with lower survival rate from @entity694 .

Marital status and XXXX outcomes in US Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results registries: does marriage affect @entity5 survival by gender and stage?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'men'] @entity0 :: ('MESH:D001943', 'Disease') :: ['breast cancer'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer'] @entity694 :: ('MESH:D003110', 'Disease') :: ['colon cancer'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death']
@entity694 :: (MESH:D003110,Disease) :: ['colon cancer']
