The report, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, which analyzed the survival rate 5 years from 36 types of cancer. Although both suffering from cancer, it became possible for women to survive the disease than men. A study says that men are at high risk of dying from cancer.

Differences in life expectancy seen in the most obvious cases of oral cancer in which 100,000 people from 5:51 to male, female, dead, followed by cancer of the larynx 5,37, hypopharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer 4,47 and 4,08 compared with a woman.

The same trend was also observed in cancers that have the highest mortality in level, ie, lung cancer kills men 2,31 ​​to a woman and colorectal cancer that kill men from 1,42 to a woman. Although the numbers of pancreatic cancer was 1,37 of a woman, leukemia and liver cancer 2,23 and 1,75.

Investigators say a little difficult to explain why there are gender differences in life expectancy, but the alleged conduct also different tumors, as well as differences in treatment received. For example, the research says that men are usually diagnosed when the cancer is in advanced stage cancer compared with women.