Don't Want Cancer? Get Married.
You probably know that race and ethnicity affect your chances of getting and surviving cancer. Many women of the Jewish faith carry a gene that indicates the potential for breast cancer. Jewish couples may also be at risk of carrying genes that may result in Tay-Sachs, a fatal disease for their children. It's also more frequent among French Canadians, Cajuns, and people of Irish/British descent. But did you know marriage is up there, too? A new study has found that that the benefits of being married vary by race and ethnicity, with male non-Hispanic white bachelors experiencing the worst outcome. This group had a 24 percent higher mortality rate than their married counterparts.Previous studies have shown that married patients with cancer fare better than unmarried cancer patients, surviving more often and longer. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that unmarried women also had higher mortality than married women, but the diffe