Testosterone May Slow Brain Cancer Growth

The findings of a new study upend decades of assumptions about male hormones and cancer.
Testosterone May Slow Brain Cancer Growth
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When researchers set out to study why glioblastoma strikes men more often than women, and kills them faster, they expected to find testosterone making things worse. However, they found the opposite.

A new study from the Cleveland Clinic, published in Nature, is turning long-held assumptions about male hormones and brain cancer on their head.
George Citroner
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George Citroner reports on health and medicine, covering topics that include cancer, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions. He was awarded the Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence (MORE) award in 2020 for a story on osteoporosis risk in men.