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.
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. Rememberg the Early Days of 'Gay Cancer'.
CANCER FACTS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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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. 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.
IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
The summer of 1981 saw the first media reports about myster diseas gay men. What did they get right — and wrong? * 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. 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. But the recent s, doctors at ne medil centers New York and seven hospals California have been diagnosg the ndn among younger men, all of whom said the urse of standard diagnostic terviews that they were homosexual.
Friedman-Kien, the reportg doctors said that most s had volved homosexual men who have had multiple and equent sexual enunters wh different partners, as many as 10 sexual enunters each night up to four tim a of the patients have also been treated for viral fectns such as herp, cytomegalovis and hepatis B as well as parasic fectns such as amebiasis and giardiasis. Friedman-Kien Curran said there was no apparent danger to nonhomosexuals om ntagn. ''The bt evince agast ntagn, '' he said, ''is that no s have been reported to date outsi the homosexual muny or women.
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 *
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.
UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
Some gay men, pecially those who are HIV posive, might have a higher risk of anal ncer. Rearch suggts that some gay and bisexual men receive ls health re than heterosexual men.
Fear of discrimatn: Some gay and bisexual men don’t tell their health re provirs about their sexual orientatn, bee they worry about discrimatn affectg the qualy of health re they receive.
This mak harr for many gay and bisexual men to get qualy health re. Some evince suggts that gay and bisexual men are much more likely to smoke than heterosexual men.