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Rate of Cancer Deaths Projected to Increase by 93 Percent in Men in 2050

Males smoke more and die of cancer more often than women.
Rate of Cancer Deaths Projected to Increase by 93 Percent in Men in 2050
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Huey Freeman
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Men tend to get cancer more often than women, and that prevalence is expected to worsen.

“Substantial disparities in cancer cases and deaths were observed among men in 2022, and these are projected to widen by 2050,” according to a study published Monday in Cancer, an Interdisciplinary Journal of the American Cancer Society.
Huey Freeman
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A newspaper reporter, editor, and author, Huey Freeman recently wrote “Who Shot Nick Ivie?” a true crime book on the murder of a border patrol agent. He lives in Central Illinois with his wife Kate.
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