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- Jan 7, 2023
I remember reading somewhere that the vast majority of wives stick by their husbands until they die in the event that he gets diagnosed with a terminal illness, but the vast majority of husbands divorce their wives if the same thing happens to them.
20.8% of relationships ended when the woman was the affected partner compared with only 2.9% when it was the man (P < .001, chi-square test). Stated another way, in 88% of the separations, the affected partner was the woman. This effect was present in each of the patient cohorts: women were the affected partner in 78%, 93%, and 96% of the primary brain tumor, general oncology, and MS cohort, respectively (Table 1).