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Susan, Sarah, and Charlotte are suffering from breast cancer. Susan is a middle-class white woman whose family and friends provide her with emotional and instrumental social support. Sarah is a single Hispanic woman from a working-class family. Her parents are deceased, her siblings do not contact her, and her children are too frightened to be of much support. Charlotte is an African-American woman who was widowed recently. According to the scenario, who is more likely to survive the longest?

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According to the scenario Susan is more likely to survive the longest.

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Susan is more likely to survive the longest because she has emotional and instrumental social support. It is known that a very importan factor in the development of a disease, has to do with the emotional strenght a sick person has. This has a direct relation with the support a sick person can find in her love ones. The emotinal support a person has when fighting cancer is most definetly a factor in the recovery of an ill person.

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