RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gender and Age Related Modulation of Xenoestrogen-Induced Tumorigenesis
Aleksandra Fucic1, *, Mantovani Alberto2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2016Volume: 10
Issue: Suppl-1, M5
First Page: 42
Last Page: 53
Publisher ID: TOBIOTJ-10-42
DOI: 10.2174/1874070701610010042
Article History:
Received Date: 31/5/2014Revision Received Date: 20/4/2015
Acceptance Date: 5/6/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/03/2016
Collection year: 2016

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Abstract
Susceptibility to environmental stressors, same as cancer incidence is both age and gender related. Understanding the complexity of responses to living environment has been impaired due to research based on reductionisms and lack of methods, models and sophisticated softwares which enable analysis of complex pathways which may be disturbed by xenobotics. Impact of estrogen on development, maturation and homeostasis of organism in both genders is now well recognised and environmental investigations are currently making major efforts to understand how xenoestrogens affect organisms at very low doses. Additionally, it is of great interest to learn possible synergistic or antagonistic effects of xenoestrogen mixtures on adult organism and during development. The aim of this paper is to review the findings on the association between cancer risk and the endocrine disrupters which directly or indirectly mimic estrogen action.