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“Did I get into the twilight zone somehow?”: sexual and gender minority cancer caregiver experiences during COVID
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for cancer patients and caregivers. Little is known about the confluence of the pandemic and...
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Piloting the Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Curricular Advances for Research and Education (SGM Cancer CARE) Workshop: Research Training in the Service of SGM Cancer Health Equity
The purpose of this study is to describe the context, curriculum design, and pilot evaluation of the educational program “Sexual and Gender Minority...
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Perceptions of and barriers to cancer screening by the sexual and gender minority community: a glimpse into the health care disparity
PurposeA disparity exists in cancer screening rates for the Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) community. We sought to understand the perceptions and...
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Affirming Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Prostate Cancer Survivors: Results from an Online Training
Sexual and gender minority people have unique, unaddressed healthcare needs following prostate cancer. The research team along with a group of...
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Researchers' sex/gender identity influences how sex/gender question is investigated in neuroscience: an example from an OHBM meeting
Gender inequality and diversity in STEM is a challenging field of research. Although the relation between the sex/gender of the researcher and the...
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Sexual orientation and gender identity inequities in cervical cancer screening by race and ethnicity
BackgroundIn the United States, inequities in preventive health behaviors such as cervical cancer screening have been documented. Sexual orientation,...
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Ethnic minority experiences of mental health services in the Netherlands: an exploratory study
ObjectiveDespite considerable spending on mental health in the Netherlands, access to mental health remains suboptimal, particularly for migrants and...
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Why using bed nets is a challenge among minority populations in Central Vietnam
BackgroundDespite freely distributed insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and health information campaigns to increase their use among populations at...
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Educational Initiatives to Improve the Cancer-Related Disparities Facing Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Individuals
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals face discrimination and experience disparate healthcare, and cancer care, in particular. Our team...
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The intersection of biological sex and gender in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccination in older adults
BackgroundWomen/females report more adverse events (AE) following immunization than men/males for many vaccines, including the influenza and COVID-19...
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Challenges in collecting information on sexual orientation and gender identity for cancer patients: perspectives of hospital and central cancer registry abstractors
PurposeSexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience cancer treatment and survival disparities; however, inconsistent sexual orientation...
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The Impact of Sex and Gender in Medicine and Pharmacology
Sex and gender play a pivotal role in health and disease. Differences can be identified in symptoms, biomarkers, lifetime experiences of diseases,...
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Consideration of sex and gender differences in addiction medication response
Substance use continues to contribute to significant morbidity and mortality in the United States, for both women and men, more so than any other...
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Sexual and Gender Minorities and Cancer in Germany: The Striking Absence of Understanding Their Cancer-related Needs
The social situation of sexual and gender minority people in Germany has changed over the past few decades due to successes of activism, legal...
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Psychological and Biological Influences on Gender Roles
Gender identity and gender roles are complicated phenomena that are likely impacted by biology as well as psychosocial influences. Nature and nurture...
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Cancer surveillance for transgender and gender diverse patients with Lynch syndrome: a practice resource of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancer
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) populations with hereditary cancer syndromes face unique obstacles to identifying and obtaining appropriate...
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Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience
We reviewed publicly available information from the top 50 journals worldwide in psychology and neuroscience to infer the proportions of editors by...
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What is the size of Australia’s sexual minority population?
ObjectivesThe aim is to present updated estimates of the size of Australia’s sexual minority adult population (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other...
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Together-Equitable-Accessible-Meaningful (TEAM) Training to Improve Cancer Care for Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM): Outcomes from a Pilot Study
To alleviate health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients, cancer care professionals need further education on the...
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Psychometric Validation of the Patient Anal Cancer Knowledge Scale (PACKS) in a Cohort of Black and Hispanic/Latino Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults
Lack of anal cancer information in priority populations is a major barrier to the uptake and utilization of prevention services. A validated measure...