Women fare better than men with metastatic colorectal cancer -- are hormones helping?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
PHILADELPHIA -- Younger women with metastatic colorectal cancer lived longer than younger men. However, this survival advantage disappeared with age, suggesting a benefit from estrogen or other hormones, according to results of a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.