Posted on 04/30/2023 5:02:04 PM PDT by aimhigh
Transgender women keep their prostates even after gender-affirming surgery, but the extent to which they remain at risk of prostate cancer has been unclear. Now a first of its kind study led by UC San Francisco has estimated the risk at about 14 cases per 10,000 people. The study drew on 22 years of data from the Veterans Affairs Health System. Although the sample size was necessarily small, it is still the largest study of its kind. It publishes Saturday, April 29, 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and is timed to the annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
"What we know about prostate cancer to date is almost exclusively based on cisgender men,” said the study’s lead author, Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, MD, a urology resident at UCSF. “This is an important first step in reshaping how clinicians think about prostate cancer in transgender women.”
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The study found 155 confirmed transgender women with prostate cancer and stratified them according to whether they had used estrogen: 116 had never used estrogen, 17 had once used estrogen but stopped before they were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 22 were actively on estrogen. The median age of diagnosis was 61 years, and 88 percent of the patients were white. Just 8 percent were Black, suggesting possible disparities affecting this group. Black cisgender men are at heightened risk of being diagnosed with and dying from prostate cancer.
The authors found that prostate cancer occurs in transgender women more frequently than published accounts might suggest, with about 14 prostate cancer cases per 10,000 transgender women. While the numbers were small, they suggest that transgender women taking estrogen may have had delayed diagnoses. The authors also said that lower rates of prostate cancer may have been due to less PSA screening, misinterpretation of PSA levels in patients on gender-affirming hormone therapies, stigma, lack of awareness of prostate cancer risk and the effects of estrogen.
“We still have a lot of work to do to determine optimal prostate cancer screening for transgender women on estrogen and related treatments,” said co-senior author Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH, of the UCSF Department of Urology. “This study should be a reminder to clinicians and patients alike that, regardless of gender, people with prostates are at risk for prostate cancer.”
Chromosomes are just so transphobic!
Or cervical cancer. I guess there's a silver lining to every cloud.
transgender women are still at risk for
male pattern baldness
testicular cancer
premature ejaculation
ED
Oh, for petes sake..what idiocy
X marks the spot.
Men can get breast cancer as well. Met a guy in chemo who had it.
A lot of them still face the embarrassment of having an erection while wearing their yoga pants around a pretty woman.
Yes, and I’ve read women who transition to men are vulnerable to ovarian cancers - more so b/c of all the artificial hormones they’ve taken.
True, but significantly more rare than for a women.
To the headline.
That’s because they are NOT women.
My thoughts exactly. I join you in the guffaw chorus.
People with prostates getting prostate cancer.
What we know about prostate cancer is almost exclusively based on cisgender men?
Do you mean to say the researchers have not sought out men who have had surgeries and things cut off and gotten female hormone shots and all the rest of it to see what their prostates are up to?
Obviously the researchers are bigoted if they only study cisgender men.
Sarcasm...
Because they are not women you dolts.
after gender-affirming surgeryI don't even know what that is (and I don't want to know), but if it leaves behind a prostate, the only thing the surgery has affirmed is that the dude is still leaky.
Ain't no such thing. THEY ARE NOT WOMEN which is the reason they are at risk for prostate cancer. Nearly all men experience prostate enlargement as they age past 50, and some get cancer.
Yes and it’s usually fairly aggressive when the do get it
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