Impact of marital disparities in treatment and outcome in elderly patients with T1N0M0 small cell lung cancer

Yahua Wu, Yingjiao Zhu, Lihu Lu, Bin Du, Rongqi Jiang, Jianping Zheng, Yaping Hong, Chengliu Lv, Na Yao, Jinhuo Lai · 2025

Read Impact of marital disparities in treatment and outcome in elderly patients with T1N0M0 small cell lung cancer by Yahua Wu, Yingjiao Zhu, Lihu Lu, Bin Du, Rongqi Jiang, Jianping Zheng, Yaping Hong, Chengliu Lv, Na Yao, Jinhuo Lai (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12729347.txt.

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Ten authors present a study from two thousand twenty-five on marital status and outcomes in older patients with a very early lung cancer. The cancer is small cell lung cancer caught at the smallest stage, in patients aged seventy and older. Marital status can shape the support a patient has for hard treatment choices.

From a national cancer database covering two thousand to two thousand twenty-one, the team took one thousand three hundred ninety-one such patients. Analysis tied sex, marital status, and receiving surgery or chemotherapy to overall survival. After matching the groups to even out other factors, widowed patients lived shorter lives than married ones on both measures used.

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CREATORYahua Wu, Yingjiao Zhu, Lihu Lu, Bin Du, Rongqi Jiang, Jianping Zheng, Yaping Hong, Chengliu Lv, Na Yao, Jinhuo Lai
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE24 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12729347

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