Importance Transgender and gender-diverse individuals face unique challenges, including
barriers to health care access and inequities in treatment, that may influence cancer risk and …

Cancer is a leading cause of death in the United States and across the globe. Cancer
screening is an effective preventive measure that can reduce cancer incidence and …

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people are disproportionately impacted by various
health issues and associated risk factors, but little is known about differences in these …

Background Transgender persons face many barriers to health care that may delay cancer
diagnosis and treatment, possibly resulting in decreased survival. Yet, data on cancer in this …

Transgender and nonbinary patients have a wide array of experiences when attempting to
access healthcare, including discrimination and having to educate providers about trans …

Clinical preventive service recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF) are based on transparent, systematic, and rigorous methods that consider the …

The global burden of cancer is growing and a wide disparity in the incidence, malignancy
and mortality of different types of cancer between each sex has been demonstrated. The sex …

Over the last 50 years cancer mortality has decreased, the biggest contributor to this
decrease has been the widespread adoption of cancer screening protocols. These …

PURPOSE To identify potential gaps in attitudes, knowledge, and institutional practices
toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) patients, a …

A well-developed body of literature demonstrates that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
and queer (LGBTQ) individuals experience poorer health outcomes and report worse health …