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.”
Maybe higher risk due to the hormones they take
Oh, dang…ROFL! 😂
Yeah, I want to trust my health to a “doctor” who can say this crapolla with a straight face.
But, but, I thought that dressing up like a grotesque caricature of a woman and getting pumped full of female hormones eliminated the possibility of prostate cancer.
BTW, why aren’t these highly qualified “doctors” explaining to these men in dresses that loading up on female hormones increases the risk of prostate cancer, along with a host of other very scary side effects.
These “doctors” should have been born in another time so they could have worked with another forward thinking “doctor”, Joseph Mengele.
Women don’t have prostates. So they are men who are at risk of prostate cancer for having a prostate.
Makes as much sense as a headline saying a study finds they are at less risk for uterine cancer.
Of course, homosexuals who want to be women still have prostates.
Good..give them a PSA test and DRE for good measure.
I think most of these freaks still have their twigs and berries. But I’m not going to Dundee any of them to find out.
ha!
“...What we know about prostate cancer to date is almost exclusively based on cisgender men..”
What in the actual Biden is a “cisgender” man?
“The study found 155 confirmed transgender women with prostate cancer...”
Maybe that will get their minds right about what they are.
Giving in to you mental illness and buying a mangina? $50,000
getting prostate cancer AFTER you paid $50,000 for your mangina?
Priceless...
It’s all part of a game that’s designed to overwhelm reality
But truth will overcome in the end.
A man without a penis has no need of a prostate.
Yes that is correct. But radical surgery to remove prostate can screw up urinary system. Why become a life member of Incontinence Depends society?
I think the more aggressive they get the more they are at risk of getting a swift kick in the nutsack too.....
you mean mentally ill men who think they are women will still get prostate cancer?- right?
I read that trans-identifying men who get lopitoffames, often keep their prostates. C’est quoi? French for say what.
I've read into it. Cross-dressing, genitally mutilated men almost never have their prostates removed in the cosmetic "surgery." It's must one more trauma in the trauma that defines the surgery.
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