Who is at risk for cancer development and death over the next decades? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The World Health Organization has recently released a snapshot of world cancer data, with a look forward to what we might expect regarding cancers of all types in the coming decades. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says men are more at risk than women.

Nelson: They chased down men a little bit. Men have a higher risk of cancer mortality, particularly the mortality to incidence ratio. This is the idea you can measure incidence, you can measure mortality, mortality and incidence ratios are known to be generally higher among men versus women. A lot of the behaviors that would make folks more cancer prone, smoking, drinking, other hazardous kinds of behaviors more common in men than women. Screening for cervical cancer and breast cancer is a little bit better deployed on a global scale than for instance screening for prostate cancers.    :33

Nelson says the good news is many risk factors men experience are modifiable. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.