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. 2018 Sep 29;18:745. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3548-1

Table 3.

An overview of patients’ and spouses’ self-reported diagnoses

Patients Spouses
Cancer type Other diseases Other diseases
Lung 7 Cardiovascular diseases 10 4
Prostata 6 Polymyalgia 1
Breast 1 Hearing impairment 4 1
Colon 6 Musculoskeletal diseases 9 6
Amyliose 1 Mental disease 1
Gynaecological 1 Cerebral diseases 4 2
Mole 2 Renal failure 1 1
Bone marrow 1 COPD, asthma 3
CML 1 Diabetes 2 2
Myelomatosis 1 Vision impairment 1
Unknown 1 Crohn’s syndrome 1