Marital Status and Survival in Patients with Carcinoid Tumors | Zendy

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Marital Status and Survival in Patients with Carcinoid Tumors

Author(s) -

Erin K. Greenleaf,

Amanda Cooper,

Christopher S. Hollenbeak

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health services insights

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739

H-Index - 12

ISSN - 1178-6329

DOI - 10.4137/hsi.s32093

Subject(s) - medicine , marital status , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , epidemiology , survival analysis , cancer , univariate analysis , hazard ratio , oncology , demography , multivariate analysis , population , environmental health , sociology

Marital status is a known prognostic factor in overall and disease-specific survival in several types of cancer. The impact of marital status on survival in patients with carcinoid tumors remains unknown. We hypothesized that married patients have higher rates of survival than similar unmarried patients with carcinoid tumors.

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