Men more likely to die of cancer, study shows Not only are men
more likely than women to be diagnosed with cancer, men who get
it have a higher chance of dying from the disease, according to
a U.S. study. In an analysis of cases of all but sex-specific
cancers such as prostate and ovarian cancer, for example, men
were more likely than women to die in each of the past ten
years, said researchers, whose findings appeared in The Journal
of Urology. That translates to an extra 24,130 men dying of
cancer in 2012 because of their gender. "This gap needs to be
closed," said Shahrokh Shariat from Weill Cornell Medical
College in New York, who worked on the study. "It's not about
showing that men are only doing worse and, 'poor men.' It's
about closing gender differences and improving health care."
Using U.S. cancer registry data from 2003 through 2012, Shariat
and his colleagues found the ratio of deaths to cancer diagnoses
decreased 10 percent over the past decade - but was consistently
higher among men than women.