Pre-Transplant Marital Status and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2020
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evidence about the impact of marital status before hematopoietic cell transplantation (hct) on outcomes after hct is conflicting.
METHODS: We identified patients 40 years of age and older within the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research registry who underwent hct between January 2008 and December 2015. Marital status before hct was declared as one of: married or living with a partner, single (never married), separated or divorced, and widowed. We performed a multivariable analysis to determine the association of marital status with outcomes after hct.
RESULTS: We identified 10,226 allogeneic and 5714 autologous hct cases with, respectively, a median follow-up of 37 months (range: 1-102 months) and 40 months (range: 1-106 months). No association between marital status and overall survival was observed in either the allogeneic (
CONCLUSIONS: Overall survival after hct is not influenced by marital status, but associations were evident between marital status and grades 2-4 acute and chronic gvhd. To better appreciate the effects of marital status and social support, future research should consider using validated scales to measure social support and patient and caregiver reports of caregiver commitment, and to assess health-related quality of life together with health care utilization.
Volume
27
Issue
6
First Page
596
Last Page
596
ISSN
1718-7729
Published In/Presented At
Tay, J., Beattie, S., Bredeson, C., Brazauskas, R., He, N., Ahmed, I. A., Aljurf, M., Askar, M., Atsuta, Y., Badawy, S., Barata, A., Beitinjaneh, A. M., Bhatt, N. S., Buchbinder, D., Cerny, J., Ciurea, S., D'Souza, A., Dalal, J., Farhadfar, N., Freytes, C. O., … Saber, W. (2020). Pre-Transplant Marital Status and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes. Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 27(6), e596–e606. https://doi.org/10.3747/co.27.6327
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
33380875
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute
Document Type
Article