The effects of a cancer diagnosis on the health of a patient's partner : a population-based registry study of cancer in Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
The aim of this population-based registry study was to explore how cancer influences the health of partners, by examining the onset of new diagnoses for partners, health care use and health care costs among partners living with patients with cancer. The sample consisted of partners of patients with cancer (N = 10 353) and partners of age- and sex-matched controls who did not have cancer (N = 74 592). Diagnoses, health care use and health care costs were studied for a continuous period starting 1 year before the date of cancer diagnosis and continued for 3 years. One year after cancer diagnosis, partners of patients with cancer had significantly more mood disorders, reactions to severe stress and ischaemic heart disease than they exhibited in the year before the diagnosis. Among partners of patients with cancer, the type of cancer was associated with the extent and form of increased health care use and costs; both health care use and costs increased among partners of patients with liver cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and miscellaneous other cancers. The risk of poorer health varied according to the type of cancer diagnosed, and appeared related to the severity and prognosis of that diagnosis.
Avdelning/ar
- Tumörmikromiljö
- BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation
- Medicinsk onkologi
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Publiceringsår
2016-09
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
744-752
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Cancer Care
Volym
25
Issue
5
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Cancer and Oncology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1365-2354