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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(19):1560-1562; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.19.1560
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 19, 1560-1562, October 4, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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Gender Differences in Cancer That Don’t Make Sense—Or Do They?

Jean McCann

It is obvious why there are no cases of prostate cancer among women and almost nonexistent incidence rates of breast cancer among men. But why is there a difference between the sexes in the rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or a type of brain cancer?

When he looked at the latest figures on gender differences in cancer, Harmon Eyre, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said that he was puzzled by some of the differences.

Although some differences are hormonally related, there are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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