Marital status plays a role in survival rates among lung cancer patients.
A study has found that married patients with locally advanced lung cancer are likely to survive longer after treatment than patients who are single.
The University of Maryland researchers studied 168 patients with Stage III non-small cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer, who were treated with chemotherapy and radiation over a 10-year-period, from January 2000 and December 2010. They found that 33 percent ...
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