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 | |