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 …

Estrogen receptor signaling in the immune system

B Chakraborty, J Byemerwa, T Krebs, F Lim… - Endocrine …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The immune system functions in a sexually dimorphic manner, with females exhibiting more
robust immune responses than males. However, how female sex hormones affect immune …

Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

T **ao, J Lee, TD Gauntner, M Velegraki… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Sex differences are present across multiple non-reproductive organ cancers, with male
individuals generally experiencing higher incidence of cancer with poorer outcomes …

Sex-and gender-based pharmacological response to drugs

F Mauvais-Jarvis, HK Berthold, I Campesi… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
In humans, the combination of all sex-specific genetic, epigenetic, and hormonal influences
of biologic sex produces different in vivo environments for male and female cells. We dissect …

Sex-associated molecular differences for cancer immunotherapy

Y Ye, Y **g, 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] 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 …

Sex-biased T-cell exhaustion drives differential immune responses in glioblastoma

J Lee, M Nicosia, ES Hong, DJ Silver, C Li… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Sex differences in glioblastoma (GBM) incidence and outcome are well recognized, and
emerging evidence suggests that these extend to genetic/epigenetic and cellular …

Sex difference in human diseases: mechanistic insights and clinical implications

Y Shi, J Ma, S Li, C Liu, Y Liu, J Chen, N Liu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Sex characteristics exhibit significant disparities in various human diseases, including
prevalent cardiovascular diseases, cancers, metabolic disorders, autoimmune diseases …

Clinically relevant prognostic and predictive markers for immune-checkpoint-inhibitor (ICI) therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

WM Brueckl, JH Ficker, G Zeitler - BMC cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) either alone or in combination with
chemotherapy have expanded our choice of agents for the palliative treatment of non-small …

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 …