Date published: 2009/06/15
The BBC says:
The reluctance of men to adopt a healthy lifestyle and visit the doctor may be fuelling a gender gap in cancer cases and deaths, experts say.
Among cancers which affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop the disease and 70% more likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK said.
There is no known biological reason for this but it may be because women take better care of themselves, they said.
Amazing, eh. Whenever there is a "gender gap" that means men have better outcomes than women, then the academic middle class (e.g. the BBC) jumps to the conclusion that it must be sexism that is driving the result. But whenever the outcome favours women, then it must be that men are dolts and it's their own fault. Here in particular, perhaps the NHS is biased against men and towards women when it comes to cancer detection and treatment, but the BBC completely ignores this possibility.
Of course the result could also be skewed because it ignores cancers that do not affect both sexes, and if women are more likely to die from those cancers before the cancers being studied here, then that would affect even the relevance, never mind the interpretation, of the results.
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