Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's

A new study on "partner abandonment" has found that a woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient. Link

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Lisa Katayama

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