Research Paper Volume 14, Issue 2 pp 770—779
Impact of marital status on survival in patients with stage 1A NSCLC
- 1 Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, P.R. China
- 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, P.R. China
- 3 AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago, Chicago, IL 60657, USA
- 4 Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Victoria Hospital, Candos, Quatre Bornes 72259, Mauritius
- 5 The University of Arizona College of Medicine at South Campus, Tucson, AZ 85713, USA
Received: November 17, 2020 Accepted: September 18, 2021 Published: January 19, 2022
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203838How to Cite
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Abstract
Objectives: To study how marital status influences overall survival (OS) in patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). And whether the result is valid in different time periods.
Materials and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 55,207 cases of stage IA NSCLC from 1995 to 2015 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Marital status was classified as follows: married or with unmarried/domestic partner (MR/W.P), divorced or separated (DV/SP), widowed (WD), and single (never married). Patients diagnosed in 1995-2005 and 2006-2015 were analyzed separately as groups 1 and 2, respectively, to validate the results. Within each group, age-stratified demographic, clinicopathologic features, and OS were compared among different marital statuses.
Results and Conclusions: A total of 55,207 cases were included (group 1 n=20,223, group 2 n=34,984). From 1995-2005 to 2006-2015, median OS was prolonged significantly in all patients besides the DV/SP subgroup. In general, being MR/W.P was associated with the lowest relative risk of death in the study population (Group 1, HR= 0.854, 95%CI: 0.816-0.893; Group 2, HR = 0.799, 95%CI: 0.758-0.842). Meanwhile, OS of DV/SP and widowed patients was similar. In group 2, being single was associated with lower risk of death beyond 60-year-old.
Abbreviations
OS: Overall survival; NSCLC: Non-small cell lung cancer; SEER database: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database; MR/W.P: Married or with unmarried/domestic partner; DV/SP: Divorced or separated; WD: Widowed; SG: Single (never married).