Sexual orientation plays role in prostate cancer prevention

26/12/08

I’m not sure why this was studied, but the results are interesting. Apparently if you’re an African-American male who is gay or bisexual, you’re in a group of men that is least likely to go for prostate cancer screening. This finding was published in the recent issue of Medical Care.
Researchers used information gleaned from almost 20,000 telephone interviews with men who participated in a project called the California Interview Survey. While the findings didn’t find a difference between PSA testing (prostate specific antigen) between the orientation of men in general, when the groups were broken down according to race, African-American men showed a big difference between heterosexuals and those who were either gay or bisexual.
African-Americans who were not hetero…

Original post by Cancer Commentary and software by Elliott Back

 

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