When it comes to the fight against cancer, there is one medicine that doctors can’t prescribe and that’s marriage.
According to a new study in The Journal of Oncology, married people with cancer were 20% less likely to die from the disease than single, widowed or divorced people.
The main reason has to do with the amount of support that’s offered from a husband or wife and that “social support” has immune-boosting powers that have the patient “display less distress, depression and anxiety than their unmarried counterparts.”
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Source: USA Today
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