These are danish numbers: During our research we found, that women have 12 million more visits to the doctor pr. year than men. There are many reasons for this, we have been looking mostly at how hegemonic masculine identity seems to play a role (men try to protect their autonomy, they hate to be looked at as weak etc.). A result of this behavior, among others, is the fact, that many men seem to have more advanced stages of cancer, when finally diagnosed. Every time 7 women dies from cancer, 10 men dies. Maybe this could result in more money being spent on treating men, we haven´t looked into that. But if you look at the screening programs we have in Denmark, most are targeted at women. I think it´s because they demand them. Men don´t.