Impact of marital status during diagnosis on cancer-caused specific survival in acute myeloid leukemia patients: a case-control and population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigated the impact of marital status on cancer-caused specific mortality among acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients in the United States.

Methods

We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program to identify 50,825 patients who had their clinical and follow-up information available and were diagnosed for AML between the years 1988 and 2015. The univariate and multivariable Cox regression models were used to analyze the patient data, and to minimize the group differences due to covariates between groups, a 1:1 propensity score matching was used in subsequent subgroup analysis.

Results

Our study demonstrated that married patients were less likely to die due to AML after adjusting for demographic and clinicopathological variables,

SUBMITTER: Zheng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617539 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature