Men more likely to die from cancer

Revealing Cancer Research UK study Cancer Research UK have released a study reporting that men are over 35 per cent more likely to die from cancer than women in the UK. The report showed that 202 men per 100,000 died from cancer compared to 147 per 100,000 women in 2010. And this difference is even starker when breast cancer and sex-specific cancers such as prostate, testicular and ovarian cancers are removed from the analysis – men were then 67 per cent more likely to die from the disease. The analysis also showed that men are almost twice as likely as women to die from liver cancer and almost three times as likely to die from oesophageal cancer. This contrast in cancer death rates between the sexes may be down to more men being diagnosed with types of cancers that are harder to treat such as cancers of the bladder, liver and oesophagus. The report – presented at the Men’s Health Forum conference in London and produced by Cancer Research UK, the Men’s Health Forum and the National Cancer Intelligence Network – also highlighted that men of a working age, under 65, were 58 per cent more likely to die from cancers that affect both men and women. Cancer is the leading cause of death in men in the UK with around 82,500 men losing their life to the disease every year.