Odds of Surviving Cancer Increase with a Little Help From Your Friends
LatestAccording to study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, married people with cancer were twenty percent less likely to die from their disease, compared to people who are separated, divorced, widowed or never married.
However, you don’t need to run out and marry the first person you see, because the “real secret to survival” may be “social support,” said the study’s first author Ayal Aizer, chief resident of the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program in Boston.