Training essential to understand cancer risks, address barriers facing LGBTQ individuals

• Published in: HEM/ONC today Vol. 21; no. 21; pp. 7 - 9
• Main Author: Haviland, Kelly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thorofare SLACK INCORPORATED 10.11.2020
• Subjects: Breast cancer; Disclosure; Education; Educational attainment; Funding; Gays & lesbians; Gender identity; Hormone replacement therapy; Lung cancer; Mammography; Medical screening; Minority & ethnic groups; Mortality; Patients; Population; Prostate; Public health; Sexual orientation; Surveillance; Transgender persons; Womens health; United States > US

[...]the CDC's National Program for Cancer Registries, NCI's SEER program and the National Cancer Database do not routinely collect sexual orientation or gender identification (SOGI) cancer surveillance public health information. [...]limited national data exist for these populations. [......