Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health.
Contents:
- WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
- THE PROSTATE MATTERS A GAY MAN'S SEX LIFE
- WHEN GAY MEN GET PROSTATE CANCER
- IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
- PROSTATE CANCER GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A REVIEW
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC
WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
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THE PROSTATE MATTERS A GAY MAN'S SEX LIFE
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“I’ve been a gay activist — and been out — so long that I took for granted I uld talk openly to my doctors, ” he told NBC News.
WHEN GAY MEN GET PROSTATE CANCER
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'"He joed a prostate ncer support group specifilly for gay and bisexual men at Mount Sai Hospal Manhattan, one of several anized by the natnal advocy anizatn wh other queer men “allowed to be very open about our feelgs — and our sexualy — and to be empathetic wh each other, ” Brass said.
"A NEGLECTED AREA"It’s impossible to know how many gay men have been diagnosed prostate ncer, bee qutns about sexualy are rarely clud rearch studi.
IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
“The medil muny say, ‘We don’t want to ask olr heterosexual men qutns that might upset them, ’" Simon Rosser, an LGBTQ health specialist and -thor of "Gay and Bisexual Men Livg Wh Prostate Cancer, " told NBC Rosser, PhD, MPH, is a profsor at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health. Universy of MnotaA profsor at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health, Rosser has received a $3 ln grant om the Natnal Cancer Instute to put together the first prehensive rehabilatn program specifilly for gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer.
”Rosser said the silence and shame surroundg the topic allows ugly myths to flourish — like that gay sex somehow “ed” their ncer.
PROSTATE CANCER GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A REVIEW
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GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC
Gettg the disease, ironilly, is somethg of a luxury for a gay men of Brass’ age: Too many had their liv cut short by the AIDS epimic long before they’d typilly be diagnosed (the average age for a prostate ncer diagnosis is 66) the advent of lifavg antiretroviral dgs the mid-1990s, though, gay men are fally reachg their goln years. ”It stole a generatn, but the AIDS epimic also tght gay men how to fight disease, how to ask qutns and how to mand better treatment. Gay men are more likely to enunter this ncer than heterosexual men, not bee they are at a higher risk but bee they and their partners uld both velop they share many of the same challeng as their heterosexual peers, there are signifint differenc, Dr Gary Morrison, a Sydney-based health nsultant, says.
Morrison says the new rourc follow through and provi the implitns of each choice for gay and bisexual regnise that the social environment for gay men is different, that their sexual practic are more versatile and that prostate ncer might have a broar effect.
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