When to prostate ncer, 'gay men are erased,' patients say

Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM
• WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
• BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY
• MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.
• DR. MATTHEW R. GAY
• BETTER UROLOGY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• WOMEN OR GAYS UROLOGY?
• GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYCEXPERIENCED GAY-FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS OFFER COMPASSNATE AND CONFINTIAL CARE FOR GAY AND LBIAN PATIENTS NYC.
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM

If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. We veloped this program after our rearch intified unmet needs among gay, bisexual, transgenr and other patients om sexual mori. We ntue to rearch healthre needs, dispari and out for gay and bisexual men, and e those fdgs to provi prehensive re uniquely signed for our patients.

We nduct rearch to unver how certa urologic ndns and therapi affect gay and bisexual men.

We wele all gay and bisexual patients who were assigned male at birth; intify as male, or are genr-nonnformg or nonbary; and need urology re. But the unique challeng facg gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer have largely gone who have sex wh men (MSM) are ls likely to get regular prostate ncer screengs, and those who are diagnosed are ls likely to have faial and social support, acrdg to rearch ced by the Natnal Instut of Health.

WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY

And if their health re provir is not culturally petent, gay and bisexual men are much ls likely to unrstand how treatment will impact their qualy of life.

”As a rult, Margoli add, many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr patients go back the closet when they beg ncer treatment.

BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY

“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. Brass’ said his sexual functn was relatively good, but stead he stggled wh ntence for weeks — g as many as ne “pads” a day and stayg wh yards of a bathroom at all you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, 'Brg your wife wh you.

'"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. “Too often gay men are erased the [support] groups. They don’t want to hear other men be vulnerable, and they don’t want to hear about gay sex.

“If you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, ‘Brg your wife wh you, ’" he said. ”That disfort n spread to gay patients. "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.

MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.

“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.

DR. MATTHEW R. GAY

”But wasn’t stutnalized homophobia, Rosser strsed. ” For gay men, so long ignored by medice, Rosser believ those rat are much higher. ”Rosser said the silence and shame surroundg the topic allows ugly myths to flourish — like that gay sex somehow “ed” their ncer.

“Gay men have a lot to offer the subject of prostate ncer. And we have studi that show out are different for gay men: We have worse mental health, we have greater urary problems, but our sexual out are reliably better. 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.

BETTER UROLOGY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

”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.

WOMEN OR GAYS UROLOGY?

And, I thk, as gay men, we brg a ep feelg of passn, empathy and humor.

GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYCEXPERIENCED GAY-FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS OFFER COMPASSNATE AND CONFINTIAL CARE FOR GAY AND LBIAN PATIENTS NYC.

I am a gay man who happens to be a urologist.

Regardls of which one ws out, they are both extribly part of who I am and they are both always a gay urologist is tertg.

IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER

When tellg people what I do for a livg, pecially when I am talkg to other gay men, n feel like a b of an elephant the room. However, once we talk more, they variably start pepperg me wh qutns rangg om cur and thoughtful to sophomoric, but is often a fun nversatn.

Tellg people at work that I am gay is surround by so much more potential anxiety and fear of discrimatn.

Even though is 2021, and beg gay is more accepted today than has ever been the past, n still be nerve-wrackg when cidg whether, when, and how to e out to lleagu or mentors.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY

This is, unfortunately, not an irratnal fear; once, a patient told me they would rather see one of my partners bee they found my profile on a social media platform on which I am open and vol about beg gay.