UK cancer death rates ‘much higher among men than women’

Men are more than 35 percent more likely to die from cancer than women in the UK, according to a new research paper.

The new study from Cancer Research UK, the Men's Health Forum and the National Cancer Intelligence Network revealed that 202 men out of every 100,000 died from cancer in 2010 compared to 147 per 100,000 women.

This increased likelihood rose to 67 percent when omitting breast cancer and gender-specific conditions such as prostate, testicular and ovarian cancers.

It was theorised that this trend could be linked to the fact that more men are diagnosed with are harder-to-treat cancer types such as bladder, liver and oesophageal cancer.

Professor Alan White, chairman of the Men's Health Forum and co-author of the report, said: "It's crucial that the NHS leads the way in taking a more proactive approach to prevent men both getting and dying from cancer prematurely."

This comes after a study from Cancer Research UK last week revealed that men's lifetime risk of diagnosis with prostate cancer will have trebled between 1990 and 2015.