Survival rates are higher in married patients with biliary tract cancer: a population-based study

Wei Song; Dong-Liu Miao; Lei Chen

doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24170

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Survival rates are higher in married patients with biliary tract cancer: a population-based study

Wei Song _, Dong-Liu Miao and Lei Chen

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Abstract

Wei Song1,*, Dong-Liu Miao1,* and Lei Chen1

1Department of Intervention and Vascular Surgery, Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou Cancer Medical Center, Suzhou, China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Lei Chen, email: [email protected]

Keywords: biliary tract cancer; marital status; SEER; survival analysis; prognosis

Received: July 27, 2017 Accepted: December 05, 2017 Published: January 11, 2018

ABSTRACT

Marital status has been identified as a prognostic factor in multiple malignancies. In this study, we assessed the prognostic value of marital status in 24,035 patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database diagnosed with biliary tract cancer (BTC) between 2004 and 2014. Widowed patients were more likely to be women, elderly (> 60 years), have gallbladder cancer, and have localized SEER Stage disease than all other patients. Marital status was identified as an independent prognostic factor in both univariate and multivariate analyses, and cause-specific survival (CSS) rates were higher in married patients than unmarried patients. In addition, CSS rates were higher in ampulla of Vater cancer patients than in gallbladder cancer or cholangiocarcinoma patients. Further analysis revealed that CSS rates were lowest in widowed patients at each TNM stage and for all tumor sites. These results suggest marital status is a prognostic factor for clinical outcomes in patients with BTC, and widowed patients are at greater risk of cancer-specific mortality.

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Survival rates are higher in married patients with biliary tract cancer: a population-based study

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