Sex-Based Clinicopathologic and Survival Differences Among Patients with Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

Jacques A GreenbergNikolay A IvanovCaitlin E EganYeon Joo LeeRasa ZarnegarThomas J FaheyBrendan M FinnertyIrene M Min

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2022)

Compared to women, men have larger tumors but similar rates of distant metastases at time of surgery. OS differences appear to be driven by patients with early-stage disease without clearly identifiable differences in mutational signatures between the sexes.

Keyphrases

early stage
neuroendocrine tumors
minimally invasive
polycystic ovary syndrome
type diabetes
gene expression
coronary artery bypass
genome wide
squamous cell carcinoma
pregnant women
radiation therapy
pregnancy outcomes