{"id":24499,"date":"2013-01-30T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/stiff-upper-lip-ups-cancer-risk-052542409.html"},"modified":"2013-01-30T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T05:25:42","slug":"british-stiff-upper-lip-ups-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/british-stiff-upper-lip-ups-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"British stiff upper lip &#8216;ups cancer risk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">It might have helped the Victorians build an empire, but having a stiff upper lip could be putting Britons in mortal danger from cancer, researchers claim.<\/p>\n<p>A study by international experts suggests British stoicism may help explain differences in cancer survival between the UK and other high-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>People in Britain were said to be more likely than others to avoid bothering their doctor over symptoms they find embarrassing and time-wasting.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, cancer sufferers were less likely to be treated at an early stage when there is a greater chance of a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lindsay Forbes, from King&#8217;s College London, one of the lead authors of the research published in the British Journal of Cancer, said: &#8220;The UK stood out in this study. A high proportion of people said that not wanting to waste the doctor&#8217;s time and embarrassment might stop them going to the doctor with a symptom that might be serious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The traditional British &#8216;stiff upper lip&#8217; could be preventing people from seeing their doctor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, from a collaboration called the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership, previously compared cancer survival in a number of developed countries including the UK.<\/p>\n<p>For lung, breast, bowel and ovarian cancers diagnosed between 1995 and 2007, Australia, Canada, Sweden and Norway had the best survival rates.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark and the UK had the lowest, despite all the countries having similarly good cancer registration systems and access to health care.<\/p>\n<p>One year survival for people with lung cancer was 30% in the UK compared with 44% in Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have helped the Victorians build an empire, but having a stiff upper lip could be putting Britons in mortal danger from cancer, researchers claim.<br \/>\nA study by international experts suggests British stoicism may help explain differences in canc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}