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Naoki Nakaya1, Kumi Saito-Nakaya, Pernille E Bidstrup
1Survivorship, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden, Copenhagen, Denmark. nakaya-thk@umin.ac.jp
Background:
Previous studies suggest that spouses of cancer patients are at increased risk for several chronic diseases. We investigated mortality in relation to cancer morbidity in the stable female partner.
Methods:
We established a national retrospective cohort study of 1,422,131 men who had lived continuously with the same partner for at least 5 years and used Cox regression analysis to assess the association between experiencing cancer in a cohabiting partner and all-cause mortality.
Results:
The risk for death was only slightly elevated among men whose partner had cancer than for men whose partner remained free of cancer (hazard ratio = 1.03; 95% confidence interval = 1.01-1.05).
Conclusions:
Although a cancer diagnosis in a spouse might be associated with considerable distress, our study indicates that the risk for death differs only slightly between men living with a partner with cancer and those living with a partner without cancer.
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