Three Types of Cancers That Kills Men, And How to Spot them before It’s Too Late So it’s no surprise that cancer ranks as the second most-common killer of men. Cancer kills Nearly 1.7 million people in 2017 and more than 600,000 people will die from it, according to a report from the American Cancer Society (ACS). And the picture seems especially dire for men. For all types of cancers combined, cancer rates are 20 percent higher in men than women—and they are 40 percent more likely to die from it, too. So it’s no surprise that cancer ranks as the second most-common killer of men. The even scarier part? Many of the leading cancer killers have no clear cut symptoms in their earliest stages. And that’s one instance where ignorance definitely isn’t bliss: Hard-to-spot cancers—whether...