Cancer patients 'more likely to survive if married'

Married people are more likely to survive cancer than those who are single, a study suggests.

Cancer patients 'more likely to survive if married'

Married people are more likely to survive cancer than those who are single, a study suggests.

Preliminary research on almost 60,000 people with a range of blood cancers found that, on average, married people were 20% more likely to survive than single people, while single men fared the worst.

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