14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, the news broke that skin cancer kills way more men than women. Professor Peter Johnson at Cancer Research UK believes this is because, unlike women, men have a rather weak immune system.
The Professor maintains that, according to evidence at hand, a man's immune system is made weaker by the testosterone present in his body.
The more testosterone a man has, the weaker his immune system is, the researcher theorizes.
Sources tell us that, due to the fact that a man's immune systems is not as aggressive as that of a woman, and also needs a tad more time to figure out that something is off, cancerous cells have an easier time developing and later on metastasizing.
This might explain why melanoma, i.e. a very aggressive form of skin cancer, seems to affect more men than it does women.
Interestingly enough, experiments carried out on mice have shown that rodents whose testosterone levels have been artificially lowered produced more immune cells than they normally would have.
What's more, the immune cells produced by these mice were more effective in terms of combating potential threats.