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Do men experience more cancers than women? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Men get cancer more often than women. That’s the conclusion of a recent large study examining different types of cancer among males and females. But its conclusion is disputed by Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins.

Nelson: More than 170,000 men and more than 120,000 women, aged fifty to 71 years, and they responded to questionnaires. There were almost 27,000 incident cancers, almost 18,000 of them among men and about 8800 among women. They found thyroid cancer and gall bladder cancer the incidence was somewhat higher in women. The rest of them seemed to have a bias towards men. The strongest bias was bladder cancer, stomach cancer, or cancer of the larynx or the throat. This is where I have trouble. I just don’t think that that adjustment is adequate.  :33

Nelson believes that if risk factors and other medical conditions were more accurately factored in, many of the disparities in cancer incidence between men and women would be lessened. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.

I sincerely hope that whatever is going on for you right now, you are well.

I sincerely hope that whatever is going on for you right now, you are well.