Continued celibacy Cancer Risk

Men who are single for the elderly at home was at high risk of dying from cancer. According to a survey conducted in Norway.

In the survey the researchers from the University of Oslo analyzing the life expectancy of cancer patients diagnosed between 1970 and 2007 and compared the patient's marital status.

The result is known mortality rate of men who suffer from cancer and had never been married almost doubled, ie, 18-35 percent, while the death rate of married men 17-22 percent.

The risk of death in men who are still single is higher regardless of age, tumor location, time since diagnosis and stage of cancer.

"The difference in life expectancy in the two groups of cancer patients may be influenced by general health at time of diagnosis or type of treatment received by cancer patients," said Astri Syse of the Cancer Registry of Norway.

The researchers believe the differences between married and single men may be even higher if it included the status of couples "cohabiting".

"One problem with these types of studies that exist now are people who live at home without being married are included in the category of single, divorced or widow and two. As a result they are considered to have health benefits as married people," said one researcher.