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As an indirect test of the hypothesis that prior pregnancy has a favorable influence on prognosis in melanoma, the relation of marital status to survival among melanoma patients was examined in data gathered by the Connecticut Tumor Registry, 1935--1973. Compared to women who had never been married, ever-married women with the disease had a slightly increased survival rate, but the difference was not statistically significant. If a difference between parous and nulliparous women in survival from melanoma truly exists, it is probably a small one, and could be due to differences in characteristics other than childbearing.
As an indirect test of the hypothesis that prior pregnancy has a favorable influence on prognosis in melanoma, the relation of marital status to survival among melanoma patients was examined in data gathered by the Connecticut Tumor Registry, 1935--1973. Compared to women who had never been married, ever-married women with the disease had a slightly increased survival rate, but the difference was not statistically significant. If a difference between parous and nulliparous women in survival from melanoma truly exists, it is probably a small one, and could be due to differences in characteristics other than childbearing.
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