Sex Differences in Melanoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

The goal of this review has been to elucidate the sex differences in cancer incidence and mortality in cutaneous melanoma. We have evaluated biological and behavioral research to determine where the critical questions exist.

Recent findings

The most recent findings, through 2015, are exploratory in nature but seem to indicate that the differences are more likely due to biological variations rather than behavioral. While behavioral studies do show that women are more likely than men to seek health care and practice healthy behaviors, these differences are not sufficiently strong to explain the variation in incidence and mortality in cutaneous melanoma. Evolved differences in the immune systems of females and the role of sex steroid hormones in immunomodulati

SUBMITTER: Schwartz MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449145 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature