{"id":244645,"date":"2026-09-30T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cancer-cells-erase-sections-of-y-chromosome-to-trigger-tumor-growth-in-men"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:02:20","slug":"cancer-cells-erase-sections-of-y-chromosome-to-trigger-tumor-growth-in-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cancer-cells-erase-sections-of-y-chromosome-to-trigger-tumor-growth-in-men","title":{"rendered":"Cancer cells erase sections of Y chromosome to trigger tumor growth in men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-cells-erase-sections-of-y-chromosome-to-trigger-tumor-growth-in-men.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study found that cancer cells selectively chip away gene-rich sections of the Y chromosome, triggering ripples that regulate tumor growth.<\/p>\n<p>Co-led by University of Arizona Cancer Center physician-scientist Dr. Dan Theodorescu, the paper, \u201cRecurrent deletions and regulatory disruption of the Y chromosome in cancer,\u201d was published in the journal Communications Biology.<\/p>\n<p>Each cell in men\u2019s bodies usually contains one X and one Y chromosome. The Y chromosome has long been known to determine male sex, but researchers are learning its genes also play other roles in cells throughout the body. \u201cLoss of Y\u201d is a common genetic change in aging men, often found in blood cells. Y loss also occurs in cancer cells themselves, which is the focus of this study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that cancer cells selectively chip away gene-rich sections of the Y chromosome, triggering ripples that regulate tumor growth. Co-led by University of Arizona Cancer Center physician-scientist Dr. Dan Theodorescu, the paper, \u201cRecurrent deletions and regulatory disruption of the Y chromosome in cancer,\u201d was published in the journal Communications Biology. Each cell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}