The influence of marital status on the survival of patients with operable gastrointestinal stromal tumor: A SEER‐based study

Mo Chen, Xuan Wang, Ran Wei and Zheng Wang

International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2019, vol. 34, issue 1, e447-e463

Abstract: Background Marital status has been demonstrated as a predictive factor for prognosis in diverse malignancies, but its role in the survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) remains unclear. Material and methods This study was aimed to investigate the impact of marital status on the overall survival (OS) and cancer‐specific survival (CSS) of operable GIST cases, by using data from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. In total, 6582 GIST patients between 1973 and 2013 were identified from SEER database. Results Univariate and multivariate analyses demonstrated the marital status as an independent predictive factor for survival. Married group had better 5‐year OS and CSS than unmarried group (OS: 79.2% vs 71.3%, P

Date: 2019
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