'Never married' men still more likely to die from cancer

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 21:30 in Psychology & Sociology

It is known that the unmarried are in general more likely to die than their married counterparts and there is some indication that the divide is getting worse. New research looks at the changes in cancer survival over the past 40 years and show that the difference in mortality between the married and never married, especially between married and never married men, has also increased.

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