Re:How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men
by dvt on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:11PM
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Wittgenstein would have such a field day with the semantic games we're playing these days. The disclaimer basically says: "man" has a purely subjective meaning, but we're going to keep using the word anyway because we know you know what we mean objectively. Kind of funny if you think about it. I think that's what the (̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶n̶u̶k̶e̶d̶) comment was pointing out.
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Re:How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men
by amluto on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:46PM
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It’s a wee bit silly given that the article has “Y chromosome” all over it. But this is an article about cancer, and one could just as easily imagine that testosterone levels, or estrogen levels, or amounts of various types of tissue, etc could affect incidence of various types of cancer.
For example, brief searching found:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_androgen_insensitiv...
XY people with this condition have rather different cancer risk profiles than the general population of XX cis females or XY cis males.