title: [Gender-associated differences of lung cancer and mechanism].
abstract: Lung cancer has been viewed as the most common malignant cancer with high incidence, mortality and poor survival all over the world. A lot of investigations indicated there are significant gender-associated differences in lung cancer in several characteristics such as epidemiology, pathology, clinical outcome and prognosis. The insight into these differences may help to clarify the gender-associated characteristics of lung cancer, and to drawn out new approach for treatment and prevent of lung cancer depending on gender-associated characteristics. Furthermore, study on mechanism of gender-associated characteristics may even help to illuminate the pathogenesis of lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.forename: Yongde
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Hexiao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Guang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Liangkun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: You
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D012737:Sex Factors