NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More men die from skin cancer and their mortality rates are higher than in women, according to a recent medical study.
In the last three decades, specifically between 1985 and 2015, the incidence of skin cancer in men in 33 countries was higher than in women.
The study focused on an analysis of deaths from skin cancer in 33 developed countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The results were published at a medical conference organized by the British National Cancer Research Institute in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday.
The study indicated that women's skin cancer rates either decreased during this period or remained stable and unchanged, but did not see any increase, unlike men.
The researchers in the study said they wanted to conduct an updated and expanded analysis of global skin cancer mortality rates in an attempt to understand these patterns of death and morbidity and whether there was any impact on the implementation of diagnostic strategies Or new treatment or prevention.
Men are more than women
For more than 30 years, skin cancer mortality rates have risen, and there are signs that men are less likely to protect themselves from the sun, she told CNN.
Yang also pointed out that men are less likely to participate in awareness campaigns and prevention of the deadly disease.
But she said it was not yet known whether the biological differences between women and men had any effect.
The study showed that the biggest cause of skin cancer is excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation or to the sun or the use of the solar bath.
The study found that Australia and Slovenia had the highest rate of death from skin cancer between the sexes, and that the rate of death among men from skin cancer in Australia was 5.72 cases per 100,000 citizens, compared with 2.53 deaths among women per 100,000 cases.
Japan had the lowest rates of skin cancer in the past three decades, with Japanese men with 0.24 per 100 000 Japanese and 0.18 per 100,000 Japanese.
The country with the lowest incidence and death of men from skin cancer was the Czech Republic, with an annual decline of 0.7 percent.
Australia has recently developed a new technique for detecting skin cancer through a blood test with accuracy of 84 percent.
Skin cancer is 1.7 percent of all cancer patients in the world.
