Cancer patients' partners become ill themselves
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
Katarina Sjövall has studied partners of individuals with colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer or prostate cancer. The study shows that the number of diagnosed diseases among partners increased by 25 per cent after the cancer diagnosis.
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