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 …

Sexual dimorphism in innate immunity

S Jaillon, K Berthenet, C Garlanda - Clinical reviews in allergy & …, 2019 - Springer
Sexual dimorphisms account for differences in clinical manifestations or incidence of
infectious or autoimmune diseases and malignancy between females and males. Females …

Sex differences in risk of severe adverse events in patients receiving immunotherapy, targeted therapy, or chemotherapy in cancer clinical trials

JM Unger, R Vaidya, KS Albain, M LeBlanc… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Women have more adverse events (AEs) from chemotherapy than men, but few
studies have investigated sex differences in immune or targeted therapies. We examined …

Androgen conspires with the CD8+ T cell exhaustion program and contributes to sex bias in cancer

H Kwon, JM Schafer, NJ Song, S Kaneko, A Li… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Sex bias exists in the development and progression of nonreproductive organ cancers, but
the underlying mechanisms are enigmatic. Studies so far have focused largely on sexual …

The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

M Oliva, M Muñoz-Aguirre, S Kim-Hellmuth, V Wucher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many complex human phenotypes, including diseases, exhibit sex-
differentiated characteristics. These sex differences have been variously attributed to …

Molecular landmarks of tumor hypoxia across cancer types

V Bhandari, C Hoey, LY Liu, E Lalonde, J Ray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Many primary-tumor subregions have low levels of molecular oxygen, termed hypoxia.
Hypoxic tumors are at elevated risk for local failure and distant metastasis, but the molecular …

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 differences in GBM revealed by analysis of patient imaging, transcriptome, and survival data

W Yang, NM Warrington, SJ Taylor… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Sex differences in the incidence and outcome of human disease are broadly recognized but,
in most cases, not sufficiently understood to enable sex-specific approaches to treatment …

Sex-associated molecular differences for cancer immunotherapy

Y Ye, Y Jing, L Li, GB Mills, L Diao, H Liu… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have extended patient survival across multiple
cancer lineages, but there is a heated debate on whether cancer immunotherapy efficacy is …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer analysis of enhancer expression in nearly 9000 patient samples

H Chen, C Li, X Peng, Z Zhou, JN Weinstein… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The role of enhancers, a key class of non-coding regulatory DNA elements, in cancer
development has increasingly been appreciated. Here, we present the detection and …