Women are better at fighting cancer, but why? With a few exceptions, women are clinically treated just like we treat men! Why?…It turns out that not discriminating between the genetic sexes can be dangerous! The specialty that deals with the way the human body handles drugs is called pharmacokinetics. People working in this field have long known that there are significant differences between the sexes. However, there is a cost to women when they do not get the drugs right!