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Study explains why cancer immunity declines faster in males

Published: 16/10/2026

Lutz Menzel, PhD, formerly of the Department of Radiation Oncology within the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, and Tim Padera, PhD, currently of the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Nature Aging, “Lymph node contraction links sex-biased naive CD8 T cell decline to compromised antigen recognition during middle age.”

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