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Summary Men are more likely than women to die of most types of cancer.
According to a new study on cancer men are more likely than women to die of most typee stus of cancer. Thdy analyzed the survival rate at five years for 36 different types of cancer.The study found that the greatest gender gap in deaths from mouth cancer, with 5.51 men dying for every woman, followed by cancer of the larynx, at 5.37, cancer of the hypopharynx at 4.47 and esophageal cancerat 4.08. Lung cancer causes highest mortality rates in men which kills 2.31 men for every woman, and colorectal cancer, which kills 1.42 men for every woman.The researchers found it difficult to point the reasons of this gender gap in causing cancer but cited the different behavior of tumors as well as differences in the regularity of medical examination.
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