Posted on 09/27/2007 7:34:48 AM PDT by Rita Hayworth
BARCELONA, Spain — People who develop cervical or testicular cancer may face another harsh reality: they are more likely to get divorced, a new study says. In research presented Thursday at a meeting of the European Cancer Organization, Norwegian experts found that women with cervical cancer had a 40 percent higher chance of getting divorced than other women.
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No suprise. The “You only have one life to live crowd” would not put up with damaged goods.
How sad! Whatever happened to “in sickness or health”?
It appears from this that they did not compare the situations of patients with these forms of cancer to those of other types of cancer patients ... not to mention leukemia, Parkinson's Disease, or accident-induced paralysis.
It's supposed to be news that a marriage is more likely to break up when one spouse has a catastropic medical problem? Hogwash. I think the reports just wanted to talk about cervices and testicles.
What a shocker!! Stressful situations — illness, death of a child, money problems, infidelity — can result in divorce. I’m stunned.
“Sex could have something to do with this...”.
No kidding.
OR could there be a link between extramarital promiscuity and those types of cancer (extramarital promiscuity leading to said divorce)?
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