'Stiff upper lip' behind Britons' cancer deaths?

LONDON: British men's "stiff upper lip" attitude which makes them reluctant to visit their doctors may be behind the fact that they are almost 40 percent more likely than women to die of cancer, according to research published yesterday.

Their lifestyles may be to blame for them having a 16 percent greater chance of getting the killer disease in the first place.

The odds are even worse for men when gender-specific cancers like breast or prostate are excluded.