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p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"A new U.S. study in the journal a href="http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/"i style=""Cancer/i/a, suggests a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/18/AR2008121802097.html"breast cancer patients/a who have a distressed relationship with their spouse, may face a more trying road to recovery than do other women./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"Researchers found patients in distressed marriages had greater stress levels, slower recovery times, less physical activity, and more signs and symptoms of illness than patients who are happily married./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"The study involved 100 women who participated in the a href="http://www.stressandimmunity.osu.edu/"Stress and Immunity Breast Cancer Project/a at Ohio State. They completed a survey that measured the quality of their relationship with their spouse every year for five years./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"All the participants were living with a partner or married at the start and remained so during the five year period./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"After researchers adjusted for the participantsrsquo; cancer stage, depression levels, treatment and other factors that could have an impact, the benefit for women in happy marriages remained true./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"ldquo;A positive diagnosis is devastating for everyone, no matter the quality of your marriage,rdquo; said study co-author a href="http://stressandimmunity.osu.edu/13388.cfm"Hae-Chung Yang/a, a research associate in psychology at Ohio State University. ldquo;But women in good marriages experienced steady reductions in their cancer-related stress, while women in distressed marriages had slower recovery.rdquo;/p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"Of the participants, 72 reported having good marriages while 28 said they were in a distressed marriage. At the start, all the women had high levels of cancer-related stress./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"While other studies have observed how a cancer diagnosis affects the quality of a marital relationship, this is the first study to examine how the marital relationship affects long-term recovery of breast cancer./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"Yang further noted that the study found, as have others, that most women do not see a change in the quality of their marriage after a cancer diagnosis./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"ldquo;Whether your relationship is good or bad before being diagnosed with cancer, that is not likely to change after the fact,rdquo; she said./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"But the nature of the marital relationship will strongly influence cancer recovery./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"Marital distress is a risk factor for many poor outcomes. It is never too late to work on your marriage ndash; for both your emotional well being, but also for your health./p
pa href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast"The National Cancer Institute/a estimates 184,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2008, of them, 41,000 women will die of the disease./p
p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"Another recent study finds a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/15/healthmag.alternate.mammo.mri/"alternating mammography/a and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at six-month intervals can a href="../../national-news/alternating-breast-cancer-screening-best-for-highrisk-women.aspx?googleid=253592"detect breast cancers/a not picked up by mammography alone. #/p
p /pa href="http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/martial-discord-affects-breast-cancer-recovery.aspx?googleid=253642"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Chrissie-Cole"Chrissie Cole/adiv class="feedflare"
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