With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Ground-breaking medical technologies, like immunotherapy and targeted chemotherapy, have changed

the game when it comes to fighting cancer, with new treatments seemingly on the horizon.

Praise God!

And at the same time, one non-medical factor has long been known to significantly improve

the odds of someone surviving cancer, according to a 2013 study of over 700,000 cancer patients,

those who were married were less likely to die of cancer than those who were not.

In fact, at least according to the study, marriage was a more decisive factor in a patient

survival than even chemotherapy.

All this points to the reality that relationships are central to who we are as human beings,

and to the kindness of God for creating and designing marriage the way He did.

Also supports the idea that marriage is a created part of reality, and not merely a social

construct.

And that, whenever our single friends are suffering with cancer, they need all of the support of

God's family.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.