Why Movember?

Please help support ME and my team Ray Philip, Anthony Nater, Robert Boardman, Jim Stroh in our Movember Campaign. During the month of November we'll be growing Stache's and promoting awareness about men's health issues.

• The average life expectancy for men is five years fewer than women (presently 77 years old compared to 82).
• 1 in 2 men, and 1 in 3 women, will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
• Evidence suggests that about a third of the 571,950 cancer deaths expected to occur this year will be related to obesity, physical inactivity and poor nutrition, and thus could be prevented.
• 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime.
• In 2012, 242,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and more than 28,000 men will die of prostate cancer.
• Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in American males between the ages of 15 and 35.
• 8,590 men will be diagnosed with the disease in 2012 and 360 will die.
• 6 million people die every year from tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke. One person dies every six seconds.
• 1 in every 13 men will develop lung cancer.
• While not as common, men can get breast cancer. About 2,140 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed among men and about 450 men will die from the disease in 2012.
• More than 3.5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the US.
• In 2012, an estimated 13 million or 11.8% of all adult men over the age of 20 in the US have diabetes.
• Approximately 76.4 million men and women in the US have high blood pressure- 1 in 5 do not know it.
• About 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure, and blood pressure tends to rise with age.
• Researchers estimate that at least 6 million men in the United States suffer from a depressive disorder every year.
• Four times as many men commit suicide compared with women.
• 24% of men are less likely to go to the doctor compared to women.
• Esophageal cancer in 2011, which is 3-4 times more common in men than women.
• Testicular cancer, male breast cancer, prostate cancer, all male cancers.

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