The relationship of marital status to survival from melanoma.
As an indirect test of the hypothesis that prior pregnancy has a favorable influence on prognosis in melanoma, the relation of marital status to survival among melanoma patients was examined in data gathered by the Connecticut Tumor Registry, 1935--1973. Compared to women who had never been married, ever-married women with the disease had a slightly increased survival rate, but the difference was not statistically significant. If a difference between parous and nulliparous women in survival from melanoma truly exists, it is probably a small one, and could be due to differences in characteristics other than childbearing.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003237:Connecticut; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008545:Melanoma / Q000401:mortality*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy