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ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2019

Teaching Health-Care Providers to Query Patients With Cancer About Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Status and Sexual Health.

Elizabeth J Cathcart-Rake, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Judith Kaur, Jennifer O'Connor, Jennifer L Ridgeway, Aminah Jatoi

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Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Educational Initiatives to Improve the Cancer-Related Disparities Facing Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Individuals.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2025
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  5. Why Good Cancer Care Means Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Individuals With Gendered Cancers: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023
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  7. Affirming Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Prostate Cancer Survivors: Results from an Online Training.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Elizabeth J Cathcart-Rake1 Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-4913
Carmen Radecki Breitkopf2 Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Judith Kaur3 Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Jennifer O'Connor4 Department of Medical Oncology Clinical Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Jennifer L Ridgeway5 Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Aminah Jatoi1 Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1081-189X

Funding

Collaborations and NCORP Collective ManagementUG1CA189823 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Evanthia Galanis, Olwen Hahn · 2014 to 2026
$120.6M
NCI NIH HHS UG1 CA189823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

End of life is difficult for all patients but sexual and gender minorities (SGM) are prone to isolation and loneliness, especially if their SGM status is unknown or unaccepted. In oncology clinics, where goals of care discussions about end of life are integral and frequent, querying patients about their SGM status and sexual health is of particular importance. The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently released a position statement that called for greater focus on SGM populations with the goal of reducing and eventually eliminating disparities in cancer care within this group. An important first step in addressing such disparities is learning how best to train cancer health-care providers to ask patients about their SGM status and about sexual health in general. This article summarizes the mandate for understanding cancer issues in SGM populations and the dearth of cancer-related data within this group. This article also describes an ongoing 3-part study intended to build a mini curriculum with the goal of helping cancer health-care providers to ask patients with cancer about SGM status and to ask all patients with cancer about sexual health issues. The results of this ongoing study could potentially improve end-of-life care for subgroups of patients.

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Sexual and Gender MinoritiesSexual HealthAttitude of Health PersonnelCurriculumHealthcare DisparitiesHealth PersonnelHumansInterviews as TopicNeoplasmsTerminal CaredisparitiesLGBTQ healthoncologic disparitiessexual and gender minoritiessexual healthtransgender health

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PMID30599758
PMCPMC6558653

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