Posted on 05/01/2023 12:46:42 AM PDT by glorgau
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."
Transgender people often face discrimination and disparities, and there has been a growing acknowledgement of the complexities involved in their health care.
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."
But, butt they never used so how can it be a problem? ;-)
Typo? What typo?
Another day in bizzaro land.
Bizarro world
What?!?
No way!
There is no such thing as a “transgender” person, just mutilated males and females.
There are roughly 50-100 trillion somatic cells in the human body (estimates vary widely), and each cell “knows” whether the person is male or female, regardless of plumbing. The plumbing operation has absolutely no impact on the DNA structure of the somatic cells. The hormone treatments also have no impact on somatic nuclear structure. The clothes a person wears also has no impact on the DNA that determines gender.
[Transgender women]
No such thing exists on planet Earth.
Exactly.
That's news to me!
(But then, so is: "A sack of rice just fell over in China!" And about as uninteresting!)
I had just assumed that they augured everything out as part of the operation.
Regards,
The constant drumbeat of lies fed to the masses will lead to the Strong Delusion accompanying the rise of Satan’s anti-messiah, the Antichrist.
Satan is the father of lies and is working through his goats; who are empowered by the spirit of antichrist at the behest of (evil) principalities and powers.
It is astonishing to see it in action.
Keep praying everyone.
Luke 21:34-36
Why are we even talking about this?
Prostate cancer is transphobic.
This may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. You are a male with a prostrate. You get cancer same as a man dumbass. I’ve been through it. You want to be a female, change your plumbing and go get effed. Enjoy Budlite. FHEAD! 🤣
It must be hell on a transgender getting a prostrate exam while he is having his “period.”
There are no such thing as “transgender women”. They are men.
I thought for sure it was the Bee.
Transgender women = women with dicks, aka, “dicksy chicks”.
I have had one, the exam not a period, but the biopsy is a bitch. My wife of 50+ years said I got off easy. 2 kids and experience, I guess. Best part the Doc gave me female harmons and I went home and cooked supper. Something about slowing cancer growth while we attacked the cancer. My wife liked it at first, then got pissed because I started wearing her panties and calling myself Margrete. 😂. These trannys need to go screw themselves. IMHO.
Regards
"These trannys need to go screw themselves. IMHO."
They would if they could. And then they would call the police to report a rape.
Don’t you people know it’s rude to talk about a woman’s prostate?
Something's gotta break, and soon. Americans cannot accept and/or participate in evil of that magnitude and expect their nation to survive and continue on as anything resembling a civilized path because those things are as barbaric, uncivilized and as evil as the sacrificial degeneracy practiced by the Aztecs, the Carthaginians, the Romans and a host of other nations that imploded because of savagery and degeneracy. Not possible.
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