Marital Status Independently Predicts Glioma Patient Mortality: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Analysis

To examine the impact of marital status on the mortality of patients with primary malignant brain tumors excluding bias from basic characteristics and treatment.We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program to identify 81,277 patients diagnosed from 2000 through 2016 with the most common primary malignant brain tumors, including glioma, ependymoma, and medulloblastoma. To avoid bias, we used the propensity score matching method...