Friday, September 28, 2007

Cancer and Relationships

Saw a report this morning on a paper presented by Norwegian researchers yesterday about divorce rates associated with different cancer diagnoses. They said people with cervical and testicular cancers had the highest divorce rates while breast cancer correlated with lower divorce rate.

Right now, of course, we don't know why, how, or even if this is true outside of the sample they were studying, but certainly more research will follow. It was noted that cervical and testicular cancers are likely to occur at younger ages than others.

If we are lucky, this and whatever follows from it will give more attention to the notion that there is not only a person, but usually more than one person, attached to every diagnosis.

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