Your workplace, the highway, those home repairs, time to be a safety professional and find the safe way to do it or avoid it. Seatbelts, bike helmets, and fire detectors are some essential tools of the risk-conscious guy. Lung cancer causes more deaths of Canadian men than any other cancer. Most lung cancer is caused by smoking but other risks are second hand smoke, workplace hazards such as asbestos, uranium mining, and other hazardous materials. Watch for unusual hoarseness, coughing up blood or unresolved pneumonia.
Skin cancers are more common, but less deadly.
Signs are any skin sore which does not heal or any unusual or large mole. Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men 15-34, but it is easily cured if found early. Learn to do a testicular self- exam by checking for unusual hard, painless lumps. Prostate cancer rates are rising twice as fast as breast cancer, but it responds well to treatment if detected early. Men over 50 should be checked yearly by a doctor, perhpas over 40 if your family has a history of this or other hormonal-type cancer.