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British men 40% more likely to die from cancer than women  

British men are almost 40 per cent more likely than women to die from cancer-- and stereotypical behaviours like playing down early symptoms may be part of the reason, a new report suggests.

Researchers at the National Cancer Intelligence Network and Cancer Research U.K. released a report Monday that concludes British men are 16 per cent more likely than women to develop the disease in the first place.

The researchers looked at cancer as a whole, taking age into account while comparing men to women. When they excluded gender-specific malignancies like prostate and ovarian cancer and also lung cancer (since the disease and its main risk factor, smoking, are known to be more common in men), the gender gap became more much more pronounced.

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