As can be seen in the above figure, Male rates are higher in the older age groups, but for younger age groups, rates of cancer among women is marginally higher than that among men. But this figure, however informative, does not answer the question: "are overall rates of cancer among men higher than that among women?"
In order to answer this question, we will standardise the rates using the WHO world standard population as a standardising population. In Table 2, we present the results of the standardised rates: