Open AccessThe association of marital status and mortality among men with early-stage prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy: insight into post-prostatectomy survival strategies
Author(s) -
Saira Khan,
Kenneth G. Nepple,
Adam S. Kibel,
Gurdarshan S. Sandhu,
Dorina Kallogjeri,
Seth A. Strope,
Robert L. Grubb,
Kathleen Y. Wolin,
Siobhan Sutcliffe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ccc. cancer causes and control/ccc, cancer causes and control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.073
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-7225
pISSN - 0957-5243
DOI - 10.1007/s10552-019-01194-y
Subject(s) - prostate cancer , medicine , prostatectomy , hazard ratio , marital status , gynecology , proportional hazards model , cohort , cohort study , cancer , oncology , confidence interval , population , environmental health
The purpose of this study was to determine the association of marital status, a marker of social support, with all-cause and prostate cancer-specific mortality in a cohort of men with early-stage prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy.