Being married cuts your risk of skin cancer death: Couples are up to 70% more likely to spot a risky tumor in its earliest stage, study finds

Married couples are less likely to die of skin cancer because they spot warning signs earlier than singles, new research has found.

A study of 50,000 American skin cancer patients found that, of those who were married, 45.7 percent had stage 1 tumors, which have a 98 percent survival rate.

The chance of catching the disease so early dropped 32 percent for single patients, 38 percent for divorced, and a staggering 70 percent for widowed.

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