A urology clic specializg re for gay and bisexual men has opened Chigo, addrsg unique ncerns that have long been overlooked.
Contents:
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC
- IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
- FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TREATMENT FOR LOLIZED PROSTATE CANCER
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
- TAILORG CARE FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY
Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology. Gay and Bisexual male urology patients face var barriers to qualy healthre, rangg om heteronormative clil attus, a pcy of knowledge on urologic health out and lack of tst.
The Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program striv to improve urologic re for gay and bisexual men through patient re, tn, rearch, muny engagement and advocy.
Although Gay and Bisexual men experience the same urologic ndns, they experience unique aspects of each ndn. While the problems affectg gay and bisexual men are siar to those that impact heterosexual cis-men, the patients often benef om different approach to re.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY
Led by Channa Amarasekera, MD, the Northwtern Medice Gay and Bisexual Men’s Urology program was created to improve the urologic re experience, out and qualy of life for patients who were assigned male at birth (AMAB) and intify as gay or bisexual. The first of s kd the Uned Stat, we veloped this program after our rearch showed that there were unmet needs among gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual mory patients. We created this program to meet the needs of gay and bisexual male (GBM) urology patients.
Amarasekera discs prostate ncer treatment nsiratns for gay and bisexual men.
He shar his published study asssg areas of sexual functn predicted to be important after treatment and what other urologists need to know about when rg for gay and bisexual patients wh prostate ncer.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC
In this vio, Channa Amarasekera, MD, talks about his recent study examg urologists’ knowledge and attus toward patients sexual mori and how the Northwtern Medice Gay and Bisexual Men’s Urology Program is workg to rce the dispari and improve gay and bisexual men’s urologic health. Adam Murphy, Assistant Profsor of Urology and Preventive Medice (Cancer Epimlogy and Preventn), host a groundbreakg webar that highlights the unique challeng faced by gay and bisexual men when to prostate ncer. A Pilot Study Asssg Aspects of Sexual Functn Predicted to Be Important After Treatment for Prostate Cancer Gay Men: An Unrserved Doma Highlighted.
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IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
Amarasekera, who intified a signifint gap the qualy of re beg provid to gay and bisexual dividuals. The Northwtern Medice Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program offers a range of servic signed to addrs the specific needs of this populatn. Patients who choose to participate the Northwtern Medice Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program will benef om the expertise of a team of healthre profsnals who are mted to providg the hight qualy re.
Prostate Cancer Gay and Bisexual Men: The Intersectnal Racial-Sexual Mory Experience. The first ever webar on the unique challeng faced by gay and bisexual men when to prostate ncer was recently hosted by Dr. Channa Amarasekera, director of the Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program, and Dr.
The webar brought together prostate ncer experts, patient advot and health dispary experts to discs how the tersectn of racial and sexual mory stat impacts the experience of Ain Amerin Gay and Bisexual Men wh prostate ncer re.
FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TREATMENT FOR LOLIZED PROSTATE CANCER
This groundbreakg webar highlighted the unique challeng faced by gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer and provid a platform to explore strategi to addrs the challeng the healthre system. Curt, 66, diagnosis and surgery were only the begng of a “clil and psychologil and emotnal adventure” — one he felt that many urologists were not equipped to handle, bee he was gay and the majory of doctors and their patients were symptoms are siar for all prostate ncer patients, cludg urary ntence, erectile dysfunctn, dimished libido and loss of ejaculate.
But rearchers are fdg that those chang may echo through the liv of gay and bisexual men unexpected, and sometim more difficult, obstacl n be physil and emotnal, and may be reflected patients’ relatnships wh their partners. Channa Amarasekera, director of the Gay and Bisexual Men’s Urology Program at Northwtern Medice Chigo. Amarasekera, who has foced his reer on urologic re for gay and bisexual men and other sexual mori, is the program’s first is an emergg field of study driven part by the creasg number of prostate ncer patients who intify as gay or bisexual.
”The gay and bisexual men their 50s and 60s who are now enterg the prime mographic for prostate ncer also lived through the worst of the AIDS epimic.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
Amarasekera problem, experts the field say, is that the rearch about gay and bisexual men and prostate ncer is still woefully aquate. “Historilly, most of the rearch on gay health was foced on H.
V., and young gay men, bee that was the biggt killer, ” said Simon Rosser, a profsor of epimlogy and muny health at the Universy of Mnota, who led a study 2017 of gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer.
“It’s only now that as the AIDS generatn grew olr, and aged to health problems like prostate ncer, that specialists are startg to see gay patients. Amarasekera studied urologists’ trag and found that many reported receivg ls than five hours of stctn on the treatment of gay and bisexual patients. He also surveyed gay patients, who overall said their sexual satisfactn was not aquately taken unr nsiratn durg treatment for prostate ncer.
TAILORG CARE FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
“It’s important to llect data on how treatment affects sexual functn differently for gay and bisexual men, who have different sexual repertoir than straight men, ” he said. “If you lack the tools to measure aspects of sexual functn that are specific to gay and bisexual men, you lose an opportuny to track their progrs.
Amarasekera se at the program’s two clics — one downtown Chigo and the other the historilly gay Northalsted neighborhood — are unprepared to face yet another health crisis. ”The health re system, he said, “margaliz gay men, particularly when to sexual health, and the prostate is so lked to sexual health gay men.