Men and their health

When it comes to comparing men with women around the context of healthcare, men, generally speaking, fare significantly worse than their female counterparts. Women have their own screening programmes for the early detection of breast and cervical cancer but for men, they have nothing directly comparable. For example, using PSA with or without a digital rectal exam has not been shown to be effective as a tool when screening for prostate cancer.1 In fact it was stated in a research article that “Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among men worldwide and, after lung cancer, is the second