t's true. Each year, more than 4.6 million men and 3.5 million women die of cancer globally, according to the 2014 World Cancer Report - compiled by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and published by Cancer Research U.K. That puts the global rate of cancer deaths among men - 126 for every 100,000 people - 50 percent higher than that of women, which is 82 deaths out of 100,000 people.