Men warned of greater cancer risk

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 2009-06-15 13:28

Article here. Excerpt:

'he reluctance of men to adopt a healthy lifestyle and visit the doctor may be fuelling a gender gap in cancer cases and deaths, experts say.

Among cancers which affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop the disease and 70% more likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK said.
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They found that overall men are 40% more likely than women to die from cancer and 16% more likely to develop the disease in the first place.

But excluding breast cancer and other cancers that are gender specific, as well as lung cancer which is more likely to affect men because more men smoke, the difference between the sexes was far greater.
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Sara Hiom, director of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that around half of all cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle and it's worrying that this message could be falling on deaf ears for men.

"Delays in reporting symptoms to a doctor could be helping to fuel this gender gap in cancer mortality."'

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Whats really insane is the fact that there's not one federal office dedicated to men's health.

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Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-06-15 20:23

According to the CDC, of the 15 leading causes of death, men lead in 12 categories, are tied in two, and women lead in only one. If women had these numbers, and there were no offices of women's health, they'd be storming the Bastille.

There is an Office of Women's Health at the national level, the CA state level and at the local Los Angeles County level, and none for men anywhere. Talk about taxation without representation. Wow!!! The only thing certain is Amerika is death, taxes, and evil government trampling male rights.

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Submitted by MR on Mon, 2009-06-15 21:04

I just wanted to add that I boycott any product that supports breast cancer research. Sure breast cancer is a killer but how come every other car and now every other product on store shelves has a "support breast cancer research" ribbon on it?

Where are the "support prostate cancer research" ribbons? How about generic "support cancer research" ribbons? I would totally endorse those.

This focus on woman's only cancers really bothers me. In my life I've had 3 relatives die of cancer. 2 were men and 1 was a woman. The men died of pancreatic and colon cancers and the woman died of lymphoma. Even if a female close to me died of breast cancer I wouldn't go around wearing a pink bracelet and sporting a pink ribbon bumper sticker. IMHO, breast cancer is not worse than any other form of cancer so should not have all of the marketing focus. It's all too PC for my liking.

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Submitted by the_captain on Tue, 2009-06-23 16:34