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.”
If they have a prostate they are at risk.
That’s because they’re just men pretending to be women!
Maybe the UC system has reached the end of its usefulness.
XY. You can run, but you can’t hide.
I would imagine these women are at risk for testicular cancer too.
Gee, I don’t know whether to laugh or laugh hysterically.
Pesky, truth-revealing Y chromosome.
How unfair is that? Stoopid science!
How about both!
Im with you. It would be hilarious if it weren’t also so … ridiculous.
Duh
Yap, a man without a penis is still a man and has man’s genes.
One would assume XX trannies are at risk for breast cancer as well.
On the bright side, these women are at very low risk for ovarian cancer. The medical establishment is working very hard to find out why that is.
Must be hell. The mind tells the body about certain urges, but the body can’t comply. No wonder the suicide rate is so high.
Well, they’re guys, so…
How nice that Farnoosh can make her fortune chopping off peckers in the US of A. The American Dream has come a long way, baby.
They are just eunuchs , nothing more and nothing less.
Only to a god damned moron progressive. I'm so sick of these people.
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