Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry
CNN Health published this article about children that survive cancer are less likely to get married. 21% are less likely to get married compared to their sibling and 25% to the U.S. population. The younger the children were when they were battling cancer the less likely they are to get married. Most cancer survivors are left with emotional, physical and psychological affects. I never realized these patients had these types of long term affects. When my boyfriend was eleven he was diagnosed with lung cancer and fought the disease for two years. Today he still battles with anxiety and depression being that missing school for so long caused him so much stress. The article also said how most children after their treatment receive no follow up care which contributes to all of these side affects which my boyfriend never had. If the survivors did receive care the percentage of unmarried cancer survivors could decrease.
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I never thought about this issue before, and I believe more attention should be given to the psychological affects that result from battling cancer. It is unfortunate that someone who battled such a terrible illness as cancer may not be able to experience joys associated with marriage. Most would not think the two would be correlated, but they apparently are, and at a decent number as well. Cancer patients should consider receiving some psychological therapy after fighting the cancer to effectively deal with the issues that result from it. This may avoid the problems relating to marriage. However, I still think there is hope for those that battled the cancer years ago and are still facing problems with getting married. It is never to late to get help for your problems, and these issues could be surely be fixed.
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