The man with the nagging woman may be far luckier than the reclusive bachelor with no one to chase him to the doctor. Married men with prostate cancer enjoy a better chance of survival than unmarried men, and the nagging wife could be the reason, according top one New Zealand expert.
A study published in the Canadian Journal of Urology showed that single men with the disease were 40 percent more likely to die than married men. The study included 115,000 prostate cancer cases between 1988 and 2003. Single men, including the divorced, widowed and separated, ”were more at risk even when factors such as age and tumor grade were eliminated.”
Otago University lecturer Dr Elspeth Gold said the findings were likely to reflect that married men were encouraged by their wives to go to the doctor.
“It could be a certain amount of the nagging wife syndrome. They encourage men to go and get checked out rather than put up with them moaning about not feeling well.”
