The summer of 1981 saw the first media reports about myster diseas gay men. What did they get right — and wrong?
Contents:
- REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
- CANCER FACTS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
- LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL CANCER SURVIVORS FACE CHALLENG
- UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis. He says that back 1981 and '82, before AIDS was lled AIDS, was lled "gay ncer." At the time, ncer was the most dread disease the Uned Stat. But for some of the men who had the myster new illns, llg "ncer" was a form of hope. Joe Wright is a stunt at Harvard Medil School. * the gay cancer *
Rememberg the Early Days of 'Gay Cancer' Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis.
He says that back 1981 and '82, before AIDS was lled AIDS, was lled "gay ncer.
CANCER FACTS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Rearch suggts that some gay and bisexual men may face a number of barriers to gettg the health re and ncer screeng tts they need. Learn what you need to know about ncer risk and preventn. * the gay cancer *
Rememberg the Early Days of 'Gay Cancer'. And bee the first people diagnosed wh the new syndrome were gay men, some people started llg the disease Gay Cancer.
But lots of people the media and the gay muny still lled Gay Cancer until the later part of 1982. Soon after he was diagnosed wh KS, he spent time troducg himself to men the Kaposi Sara clic wag room, vg them to the Shanti Project Gay Cancer support group.
IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
* the gay cancer *
Medilly, Bobbi Campbell knew that his so-lled gay ncer was very different than the kds of ncer that most of his patients the hospal had.
LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL CANCER SURVIVORS FACE CHALLENG
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and other non-heterosexual ncer survivors have a lower qualy of life than heterosexual ncer survivors, acrdg to a study by Boston Universy and Harvard Universy rearchers. * the gay cancer *
Barriers to health re largely due to stigma and discrimatn make members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and genr-nonnformg muny particularly vulnerable to ncer. 3% of participants felt fortable treatg people who intify as lbian, gay and bisexual, but only 53.
UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
Doctors New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 s of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of ncer. But the doctors who have ma the diagnos, mostly New York Cy and the San Francis Bay area, are alertg other physicians who treat large numbers of homosexual men to the problem an effort to help intify more s and to rce the lay offerg chemotherapy sudn appearance of the ncer, lled Kaposi's Sara, has prompted a medil vtigatn that experts say uld have as much scientific as public health importance bee of what may teach about termg the of more mon typ of ncer.