The coming decade in precision oncology: six riddles

A Wahida, L Buschhorn, S Fröhling, PJ Jost… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput methods to investigate tumour omic landscapes have quickly catapulted
cancer specialists into the precision oncology era. The singular lesson of precision oncology …

Sex differences in biological aging with a focus on human studies

S Hägg, J Jylhävä - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging is a complex biological process characterized by hallmark features accumulating over
the life course, shaping the individual's aging trajectory and subsequent disease risks. There …

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 …

Molecular characterisation of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

R Pinyol, S Torrecilla, H Wang, C Montironi… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and Aims Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)-related hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) is increasing globally, but its molecular features are not well defined. We …

Sex disparities in the incidence of 21 cancer types: Quantification of the contribution of risk factors

SS Jackson, MA Marks, HA Katki, MB Cook, N Hyun… - Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cancer incidence is higher in men than in women at most shared anatomic
sites for currently unknown reasons. The authors quantified the extent to which behaviors …

Association between sex and immune-related adverse events during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

Y Jing, Y Zhang, J Wang, K Li, X Chen… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Accumulated evidence supports the existence of sex-associated differences in
immune systems. Understanding the role of sex in immune-related adverse events (irAEs) is …

Biological differences underlying sex and gender disparities in bladder cancer: current synopsis and future directions

B Doshi, SR Athans, A Woloszynska - Oncogenesis, 2023 - nature.com
Sex and gender disparities in bladder cancer have long been a subject of interest to the
cancer research community, wherein men have a 4 times higher incidence rate than women …

Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours

V Bhandari, CH Li, RG Bristow, PC Boutros - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Many primary tumours have low levels of molecular oxygen (hypoxia), and hypoxic tumours
respond poorly to therapy. Pan-cancer molecular hallmarks of tumour hypoxia remain poorly …

Interrogation of cancer gene dependencies reveals paralog interactions of autosome and sex chromosome-encoded genes

A Köferle, A Schlattl, A Hörmann, V Thatikonda, A Popa… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Genetic networks are characterized by extensive buffering. During tumor evolution,
disruption of functional redundancies can create de novo vulnerabilities that are specific to …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosomal and environmental contributions to sex differences in the vulnerability to neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders: Implications for …

PN Pallier, M Ferrara, F Romagnolo, MT Ferretti… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders affect men and women differently. Multiple
sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorders, depression, meningiomas and late-onset …