Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine

F Mauvais-Jarvis, NB Merz, PJ Barnes, RD Brinton… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Clinicians can encounter sex and gender disparities in diagnostic and therapeutic
responses. These disparities are noted in epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical …

Sex disparities matter in cancer development and therapy

S Haupt, F Caramia, SL Klein, JB Rubin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Curing cancer through precision medicine is the paramount aim of the new wave of
molecular and genomic therapies. Currently, whether patients with non-reproductive …

Androgen receptor blockade promotes response to BRAF/MEK-targeted therapy

CP Vellano, MG White, MC Andrews, M Chelvanambi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with therapy targeting BRAF and MEK (BRAF/MEK) has revolutionized
care in melanoma and other cancers; however, therapeutic resistance is common and …

Histone demethylase KDM5D upregulation drives sex differences in colon cancer

J Li, Z Lan, W Liao, JW Horner, X Xu, J Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Sex exerts a profound impact on cancer incidence, spectrum and outcomes, yet the
molecular and genetic bases of such sex differences are ill-defined and presumptively …

Sexual dimorphism in colon cancer

M Abancens, V Bustos, H Harvey, J McBryan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A higher incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is found in males compared to females.
Young women (18–44 years) with CRC have a better survival outcome compared to men of …

Sex-specific differences in glioblastoma

A Carrano, JJ Juarez, D Incontri, A Ibarra, HG Cazares - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sex differences have been well identified in many brain tumors. Even though glioblastoma
(GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and has the worst …

Genome-wide sex and gender differences in cancer

CM Lopes-Ramos, J Quackenbush… - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite their known importance in clinical medicine, differences based on sex and gender
are among the least studied factors affecting cancer susceptibility, progression, survival, and …

[HTML][HTML] The spectrum of sex differences in cancer

JB Rubin - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Sex differences in cellular and systems biology have been evolutionarily selected to
optimize reproductive success in all species with little (sperm) and big (ova) gamete …

Hepatic sexual dimorphism—implications for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

P Lefebvre, B Staels - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
The liver is often thought of as a single functional unit, but both its structural and functional
architecture make it highly multivalent and adaptable. In any given physiological situation …

The role of epigenetic modifications in human cancers and the use of natural compounds as epidrugs: Mechanistic pathways and pharmacodynamic actions

A Bouyahya, H Mechchate, L Oumeslakht, I Zeouk… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a complex disease resulting from the genetic and epigenetic disruption of normal
cells. The mechanistic understanding of the pathways involved in tumor transformation has …