Contribution of insurance status to the association between marital status and cancer-specific survival: a mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the extent to which marriage influences cancer-specific survival (CSS) by influencing the insurance status among patients with common solid cancers and the feasibility of reducing the survival gap caused by marriage by increasing private insurance coverage for unmarried patients.

Setting

A retrospective cohort study with patients retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results programme.

Participants

Patients with nine common solid cancers diagnosed between 2007 and 2016 were included. Patients were excluded if their marital status, insurance status, socioeconomical status, stage or cause of death was unavailable, if survival time was less than 1 month, or if they were younger than 18 years at the time of diagnosis.

Primary and

SUBMITTER: Yang KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494571 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature