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.
肺癌是全球发病率、死亡率最高、治疗效果差的恶性肿瘤。肺癌在流行病学、病理类型、疗效和预后、甚至发病机制等多方面均表现出明显性别差异。对这些差异的深入剖析能更好地认识男女性别肺癌各自的特点，为肺癌防治采用不同的性别化措施提供新线索和思路；而对导致性别差异的具体机制进行深入研究，有助于阐明肺癌的发病机制。