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ReviewCancers2026

Sex as a Contextual Modifier in Colorectal Cancer: Integrating Tumor Sidedness, Molecular Subtype, Immune Ecology, and Early-Onset Disease.

Bing Liang, Xinlin Liu, Tingting Zhang, Dongming Xing

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Review in Cancers, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Bing LiangCancer Institute, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5345-137X
Xinlin LiuCancer Institute, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China.
Tingting ZhangCancer Institute, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China.
Dongming XingCancer Institute, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China.

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China ZR2023QC117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) shows consistent sex-related differences in incidence, anatomic distribution, molecular subtype, immune context, and clinical outcome. However, these differences are often discussed through broad parallel themes such as hormones, genetics, or the microbiome, rather than through the biological settings in which sex meaningfully modifies tumor behavior. This review argues that sex is most informative in CRC when treated as a contextual modifier whose relevance emerges only after integrating tumor sidedness, mismatch repair status, oncogenic background, immune ecology, and age at onset. The clearest signals arise from interaction-based contexts, particularly when sex is interpreted together with tumor sidedness and dMMR/MSI-H or

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colorectal cancerearly-onset colorectal cancerimmune microenvironmentmolecular subtypesex as a biological variabletumor sidedness

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PMID42073632
PMCPMC13115392

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