Men more likely to die of cancer

CNN (via Health.com) – By Matt McMillen – (Wednesday, July 13, 2011) -

Men are more likely than women to get and die of cancer, according to an analysis of 36 different types of tumors and blood cancers that affect both sexes.

Leukemia and cancers of the colon and rectum, pancreas, and liver killed about one and a half to two times as many men as women in the U.S. over a 30-year period. Read more.

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