14 DAY TRIAL // Each year, a fairly similar number of men and women are diagnosed with skin cancer. Interestingly enough, it appears that women have better chances of surviving this condition than men do.
Researchers in the United Kingdom argue that, when compared to women, men are roughly 70% more likely to die from malignant melanoma, i.e. a highly aggressive form of skin cancer.
What's more, it appears that, since the 1970s until present day, death rates for men suffering with skin cancer have upped by an impressive 185%.
By comparison, the same rates have only increased by about 55% in the case of women, Daily Mail reports.
Professor Julia Newton-Bishop, a specialist now working with Cancer Research UK, suspects that this is because, unlike women, men get diagnosed with skin cancer at an advanced stage.
Therefore, treatment often fails to do the trick and eradicate or at least put a leash on the condition.
On the other hand, it could be that underlying biological factors influence survival rates.
“There also seem to be strong biological reasons behind the differences and we’re working on research to better understand why men and women’s bodies deal with their melanomas in different ways,” Julia Newton-Bishop wished to stress.