A new report from the World Health Organization analyzing global melanoma skin can cancer death rates from 1985-2015 indicates that in nearly all 33 countries studied, men had higher melanoma death rates compared to women. Australia exhibited the largest increase in death rates while Japan registered the lowest. Further the Czech Republic was the only country of those studies that had a decrease (albeit it only 0.7%) over the 30-year study. While study author Dr. Dorothy Yang explains that there are a number of biological factors explaining the difference in mortality rates among genders, she does also state that "men are less likely to protect themselves from the sun or engage with melanoma awareness and prevention campaigns."
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