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2024-07-05 05:05:00 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5F4AEADA57BD58F2AA7EEB1B913E2C7F0A307D862A37C3A5D3B0BA4787E03E7E
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Systematic reviews have found that "cancer is associated with a tendency to a slightly DECREASED divorce rate" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959852/ The mistaken belief that husbands are more likely to divorce their wives when they have cancer was widely spread in 2015, but the source was a coding error. https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-reported-study-suggesting-divorce-is-more-likely-when-wives-fall-ill-gets-axed/
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