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New study results show that melanoma patients who have lost their partner have a higher risk of dying compared with those who were not bereaved.
2020.03.06 |
In collaboration with colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers from Department of Clinical Epidemiology have conducted a series of studies on bereavement and skin diseases.
The latest results show that melanoma patients had a 17% higher risk of dying if their partner had died compared with those who were not bereaved.
Within the first year after melanoma diagnosis, the bereaved were 31% more likely to die from melanoma compared to the non-bereaved. In addition, the bereaved were 12% less likely to be diagnosed with melanoma than those who had not lost their partner; maybe because they do not have someone else to spot signs of skin cancer.
The study is based on almost 5.5 million people in the UK and Denmark and covers a period of 20 years.
The study has just been published in the British Journal of Dermatology and been reported by the Daily Mail, among others.