Men are known to be more likely to develop cancer than women, and a new study suggests that this is largely due to biologic differences between the sexes.
“After controlling for factors like smoking, alcohol use, diet, physical activity and common medical conditions [that increase cancer risk], the sex bias remained for most cancers,” said study author Sarah Jackson, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
Exactly which biological differences are driving these disparities isn’t fully understood yet.
“We’d… like to explore the contribution of sex hormones and genetics to cancer incidence in future research,” she said….