Men are more likely to be prone to cancer than women

Question

Men are more likely to develop cancer in organs than women, but it isn't always because they smoke and drink more than women

Comments

The link is helpful, but you do very little to make any indication of the importance of any of the points made. Some more elaboration would have been nice, and could have bolstered your fact-check.

Answer 1

Yes, men are more likely prone to cancer then women. Men are known to consume more unhealthy products like alcohol and tobacco products as well. Men are more specifically more likely to get cancer in their organs which is a big correlation to the consumption of unhealthy products like alcohol and tobacco and nicotine. Also, a genetic factor might be at play but I couldn't find extensive evidence on that matter. 

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/features/cancer-and-men.html 

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Great fact check, clear and concise while effectively confirming the original claim. Utilized evidence from a very credible source while admitting to other potential causes that have yet to be thoroughly explored. Would love to see further elaboration using multiple sources in the future.

Answer 2

Yes, this claim is valid. Very Well Health, the website used in this claim, states in its article that "A long-term observational study shows that even after factors like smoking and alcohol use are accounted for, rates [of cancer] are still higher in men than in women." They further explain that it is unknown why this is the case. 

After fact-checking with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they confirmed that "men have higher rates of getting and dying from cancer than women." 

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/features/cancer-and-men.html 

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Your fact check is thorough and well-referenced. By incorporating credible sources, you provide a solid foundation for the claim that men have higher cancer rates than women, and I like that. you fact-checked the claim by looking into the original article. You could also add other sources about additional forces that may explain why men are more prone to cancer than women.

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Good factcheck with a very reputable source. I also found this article to be interesting as an addition to support the claim.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/02/why-is-cancer-more-common-in-men

Answer 3

This is true as men are more likely than women to develop cancer. The risk is much higher in males than it is in females. This is the case for the majority of cancers, regardless of age. There are many reasons for this, with hormones and bmi being two factors.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3153584/#:~:text=Sex%20is%20known%20to%20be,at%20most%20ages%20(2).

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I liked your use of the NIH source which is one of the most reliable out there. I felt that you could have included other lifestyle factors into your argument as well to make it even stronger. I wonder how genetics would play into this as well. Great answer.

Answer 4

This statement is true. Men according to the CDC have higher rates of cancer than women. 

Men are more likely to develop cancer than women for many reasons. One of these includes behavioral and carcinogenic exposures. These causes however do not account for the majority of cancer cases, and these reasons only account for an increased risk for certain types of cancers such as esophageal and lung. According to a study conducted by National Cancer Institute it was found"...that there are differences in cancer incidence that are not explained by environmental exposures alone. This suggests that there are intrinsic biological differences between men and women that affect susceptibility to cancer'". This shows how men have biological differences that put them at higher risk for developing cancer.

In conclusion men, biologically, are at a higher risk of developing cancer in comparison to women. That being said some of the increased risk for cancer in men is caused not by biological differences but instead behavioral ones. 

Sources -

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9987657/

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/features/cancer-and-men.html#:~:text=Overview-,Men%20have%20higher%20rates%20of%20getting%20and%20dying%20from%20cancer,your%20chance%20of%20getting%20cancer.

Answer 5

This claim is true, men are more likely to get cancer than women. This study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9987657/, asks why men face a higher risk of cancer, which means men are in fact more likely to get cancer. The paper was published on the National Institute of Health Website, which is operated by the government.

Answer 6

Is this because cancer is intimidated by women? I remember myself, young and virginal, being afraid to grace a woman's breast. Perhaps this is why cancer primarily affects older women; similar to how a "cougar" or "MILF" may help guide a young man into their first experience. Is the breast of an older woman more comforting?

I myself was deflowered by an 86 year old woman.

I do not believe cancer to be gay though, perhaps its comfortable relationship with men is more "bro-status"?

Answer 7

The first article that I found was from Texas Health. In this article, they stated that women are more likely to develop cancer rates compared to men, having an 82% higher rate to develop cancer. This article also states that common cancers affect women more, like breast cancer and thyroid cancer. Cancer rates are also raising rapidly among younger women, more than it ever has before. 

The second article I explored was from the American Cancer Society. This one had the same statistics from the first article, stating that women's risk of getting cancer went from 52% higher than men to 82% in a matter of years, which is a significant jump. 

Finally, the third article I explored was from the National Library of Medicine, which had very contrasting results to the first two articles. This article stated that more cancers arose in men, so I am wondering what the wording meant to each article, and how they were measuring it.

Overall, I found this claim to be false, because of the contrasting articles statistics. 

Answer 8

This claim is true. Men are more likely to be cancer prone than women. According to the CDC “men have higher rates of getting and dying from cancer”, specifically in organs, when compared to women.  

This is backed up not only by the Very Well Health article provided by the original claim but more reputable sources like the National Institute of Health.