God’s Plan Works: Marriage Linked to Drastically Lower Cancer Risks in New Large-Scale Study

You can add a lessened risk for cancer to the reasons to adhere to God’s design.

In a new sweeping study of over 4 million cancer cases published in Cancer Research Communications, cancer has a 68 percent higher incidence among men who have never married compared to men who married, as noted in a report from The Wall Street Journal.

For women, cancer rates are roughly 83 percent higher for those who never marry.

Men who never married had a rate of anal cancer five times higher; for women, cervical cancer was three times higher.

Frank Penedo, director of the Sylvester Survivorship and Supportive Care Institute at the University of Miami, said that “it’s a clear and powerful signal that some individuals are at a greater risk,” according to a report from Fox News.

“It means that if you’re not married, you should be paying extra attention to cancer risk