{"id":156143,"date":"2017-02-22T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/cancer-death-rates-fall-more-slowly-among-women\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:20:25","slug":"cancer-death-rates-fall-more-slowly-among-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/cancer-death-rates-fall-more-slowly-among-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer death rates fall more slowly among women\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Male death rates from cancer have dropped 8.2% across Europe in five years<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>However death rates for women dropped just 3.6% in the same time frame<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>A study attributes\u00a0increased smoking and drinking among women as the cause<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The University of Milan say lung cancer will kill 275,000 across Europe in 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By<\/p>\n<p>Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span><br \/>\n  19:11 EST, 21 February 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span><br \/>\n  04:20 EST, 22 February 2017<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-facebook\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-gplus\">\n      <span class=\"g-interactivepost\"><br \/>\n        <a><\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-email\">\n<p>                <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkTop\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>     <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"count-number\">          16<\/p>\n<p class=\"count-text\">View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A legacy of unhealthy lifestyles among women means their death rate from cancer<\/a> is falling slower than men\u2019s, research suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Smoking and drinking, which took off among women in the 1960s and 1970s, are now having an effect on cancer rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While men started to give up smoking a few decades later, women were slower to do so, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bda80516404a0d88\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Smoking and drinking, which took off among women in the 1960s and 1970s, are now having an effect on cancer rates\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bda80516404a0d88\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/23\/3CF55BB700000578-0-image-a-35_1487721274155.jpg\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Smoking and drinking, which took off among women in the 1960s and 1970s, are now having an effect on cancer rates\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Smoking and drinking, which took off among women in the 1960s and 1970s, are now having an effect on cancer rates<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The research, published in the Annals of Oncology, suggests male death rates from cancer have dropped 8.2 per cent across Europe over the past five years, but for women they dropped just 3.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mortality rates for cancers are predicted to decline, except among pancreatic cancer patients in both sexes and lung cancer in women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The researchers, from the University of Milan, predict lung cancer will cause 275,700 deaths across Europe this year \u2013 about 20 per cent of all cancer deaths.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/17\/3D7E10E800000578-0-image-m-38_1487698354203.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>&#8216;They are two beautiful girls with one perfect heart&#8217;:&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/15\/3D7CE8E000000578-0-image-a-17_1487691364877.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>&#8216;I have to save her!&#8217; Touching story of how an&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lead researcher Professor Carlo La Vecchia said: \u2018Fewer women than men will die from cancer, but the fact that the rate of decline is slower in women than in men reflects the different trends in lung and other tobacco-related cancers between the two sexes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Experts estimate that since 1988, improvements in prevention, detection and treatment of cancers has led to more than four million deaths being avoided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Separate research, reported in the Mail earlier this month, predicted the incidence of cancer diagnoses in Britain would rise six times faster for women than for men over the next 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-14e29fa9ca62ea22\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Lung cancer will cause 275,700 deaths across Europe this year \u2013 about 20 per cent of all cancer deaths\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-14e29fa9ca62ea22\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/23\/34C2799E00000578-0-image-a-36_1487721324553.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Lung cancer will cause 275,700 deaths across Europe this year \u2013 about 20 per cent of all cancer deaths\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Lung cancer will cause 275,700 deaths across Europe this year \u2013 about 20 per cent of all cancer deaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Better medical treatments mean death rates are dropping, but the number of cases are still expected to rise by 3.2 per cent for women until 2035, compared to just 0.5 per cent for men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That analysis, by Cancer Research UK, also pinned the blame on lifestyle, with obesity, smoking and drinking among women set to increase the number of cases of breast, ovarian, liver and lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <!-- ad: http:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v2\/us\/health\/none\/article\/other\/inread_player.html --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bigLinks sc-icns cleared\">\n<li class=\"facebook\">\n<p>                                    <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"share\" id=\"shareLinkBottom\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"social-stats social-stats-pipe\" id=\"shareCountBottom\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"addCommentButton\" class=\"add-comment\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            <!-- NOTE: WARNING: render-partial is a function --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels\">\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/19\/3D7E793500000578-0-image-m-41_1487706730218.jpg\" alt=\"As the trio of vehicles all stop at a red light, one of the men inside the van can be heard asking: 'Alright, want my number?'\" width=\"154\" height=\"115\" \/><span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">&#8216;That&#8217;s exactly what you deserve, you scum&#8217;: Furious&#8230;<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/20\/3D7F220E00000578-0-image-a-68_1487709920124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"115\" \/><span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">Firebrand conservative columnist Milo Yiannopolous quits&#8230;<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/21\/02B182F7000005DC-0-image-m-5_1487714044100.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Matthews, pictured in 2008\" width=\"154\" height=\"115\" \/><span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">Wallowing in self pity, the mother who faked her own&#8230;<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/21\/19\/03B10F23000003E8-0-image-a-11_1487704078178.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Williams-Thomas theorises that Madeleine McCann left her holiday flat to look for her parents on the night she went missing\" width=\"154\" height=\"115\" \/><span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">Madeleine McCann&#8217;s angry parents are &#8216;baffled&#8217; 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