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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Here you go:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110105401.htm

Men Leave: Separation And Divorce Far More Common When The Wife Is The Patient[/quote]

It is now clear where you found the information you quoted.  [u]Thank you[/u]. It made for sobering reading.

Your posted link is not a link to the actual study.  Instead, it links to a summary of the study.  The study itself is here:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19645027/.

The actual study addresses a total of 515 patients who were prospectively identified as having either a malignant primary brain tumor (N = 214), a solid tumor with no nervous system involvement (N = 193), or multiple sclerosis (N = 108) who were married at the time of diagnosis. It found that people in the study got divorced at a rate similar to that of the general population.  However, among the members of the group that got a divorce, it was 6X more likely that the woman was the affected spouse.

The study did not address related health care issues such as which spouse was the primary household provider (i.e., how often did the couple divorce when the primary provider was affected spouse.)  This difference would impact the study since a woman might not be able to divorce her husband in this situation when he is the primary provider (or vice versa.) [/quote]

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