Marital status independently predicts gastric cancer survival after surgical resection--an analysis of the SEER database

• DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.7107
• Publication Date: 2016-02-01T05:30:35Z
• Authors: Rong-liang Shi; Qian Chen; Zhen Yang; Gaofeng Pan; Ziping Zhang; WeiHua Wang; Shaoqun Liu; Dongbin Zhang; Daowen Jiang; Weiyan Liu
• Keywords: Marital status

// Rong-liang Shi 1,2,3,* , Qian Chen 1,* Zhen Yang 1 Gaofeng Pan Ziping Zhang WeiHua Wang 1,4 Shaoqun Liu Dongbin Daowen Jiang and Weiyan Department of General Surgery, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic China 2 Head Neck University Shanghai Cancer Center, 3 Oncology, Medical College, 4 Thoracic * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Liu, email: Jiang, Keywords : gastric cancer, marital status, SEER,survival analysis Received October 20, 2015 Accepted January 24, 2016 Published 31, Abstract Marital status was found be an independent prognostic factor for survival in various cancer types, but it hasn’t been studied cancer. The Surveillance, Epidemiology End Results database used compare outcomes with status. A total 16,106 eligible patients were identified. Patients the widowed group had highest proportion women, more common site stomach, prevalence elderly patients, higher percentage adenocarcinoma, tumors at localized stage (P < 0.05). married better 5year cause-specific (CSS) than those unmarried Further showed that always presented lowest CSS compared other groups. Widowed 7.1% reduction 5-year Localized (77.2% vs 70.1%, P 0.001), 9.6% Regional (38.2% 28.6%, 4.7% Distant (13.3% 8.6%, 0.001). results greater risk specific mortality. Despite favorable clinicpathological characteristics, death