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When it comes to brain tumors, a patient's sex matters

  • Written by Joshua Rubin, Professor, Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Washington University in St Louis
Different genes drive cancer growth in males and females.Imagentle/Shutterstock.com

Have you ever wondered why, in most species, males are larger and more ornamented than females? It’s an evolutionarily determined aspect of biology, but what does it mean for human health and disease? What are the implications of needing one chart to describe...

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