Cancer’s lethal grip on Island men
Women greatly outnumber men in most nursing homes and senior centers on Staten Island for one simple reason: Women live longer.Experts have struggled to explain why that is, but state Health Department statistics illuminate one factor that may play a big role. It’s lung cancer, which kills more borough men than women.
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