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The implication is womens' immune system is more trigger happy, which would make cancer in women less common.
by gozur88 10y ago
The implication is womens' immune system is more trigger happy, which would make cancer in women less common.
- stagbeetle 10y agoMy first thought was that the opposite was true. The immune system attacks healthy cells, increasing inflammation, thus stress. Thereby lowering the normal immune system and allowing cancer cells to flourish. Unless you're talking about all-encompassing diseases (I can't think of any off the top of my head). Otherwise, I don't think Celiac/MS/Diabetes is fighting any cancers.
- gozur88 10y agoThe problem is if your immune system is too permissive it's leaving around damaged DNA lines that can later become even more damaged in a cancer kind of way.