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How your relationship status impacts your cancer risk: study

Nypost · · 810 words · By McKenzie Beard
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“A sweeping new study compared people who are or have been married with those who’ve never tied the knot and found one group faces a much higher lifetime risk of cancer.”
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No relevant evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about married individuals having lower cancer risk.
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“The study looked at more than 4 million cancer cases across a population of over 100 million people in 12 states between 2015 and 2022.”
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Wikipedia entries about Billboard, Nasdaq, and government contractors are unrelated to the study's scope, population, or timeframe. No evidence confirms the study's parameters.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Top 100 Contractors Report (TCR 100) is a list developed annually by the General Services Administration as part of its tracking of U.S. federal government procurement. It features the "Top 100" c…
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“About one in five adults in the study had never married.”
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Wikipedia entries on mathematical concepts (approximation, PAC learning) are unrelated to the claim about marriage rates in the study. No evidence supports this statistic.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In mathematics, particularly in mathematical analysis and measure theory, an approximately continuous function is a concept that generalizes the notion of continuous functions by replacing the ordinar…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In computational learning theory, probably approximately correct (PAC) learning is a framework for mathematical analysis of machine learning. It was proposed in 1984 by Leslie Valiant. In this framewo…
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“Never-married men had about five times the rate of anal cancer compared with married men.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about anal cancer rates in never-married men.
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“Women who never wed faced nearly triple the rate of cervical cancer compared with women who were or had been married.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about cervical cancer rates in never-married women.
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“Never-married men were about 70% more likely to develop cancer than married men.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "He never married" or "she never married" was a phrase used by British obituary writers as a litote for the deceased having been homosexual. Its use has been dated to the second half of the 20th centu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Married... with Children is an American television sitcom created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt for the Fox Broadcasting Company, broadcast from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. It is the longest-…
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“Never-married women had an 85% higher risk of developing cancer compared with their married counterparts.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about cancer risk in never-married women.
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“Never-married Black men had the highest overall cancer rates.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about cancer rates in never-married Black men.
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“Married Black men had lower cancer rates than married white men.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about cancer rates in married Black men versus white men.
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“In 2024, just 66% of Americans ages 15 and older have been married at least once, down from 85% in 1960.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about marriage rates in the U.S. population in 2024 versus 1960.
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