Cancer survivors' health behaviors and outcomes: a population-based study of sexual and gender minorities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most case-control studies compare cancer survivors with general population controls without considering sexual orientation or gender identity. This case-control analysis compared health risk behaviors and health outcomes among sexual and gender minority cancer survivors to those of matched sexual and gender minority participants without cancer (controls).

Methods

Using data from the 2014-2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a population-based sample of 4507 cancer survivors who self-identified as transgender, gay men, bisexual men, lesbian women, or bisexual women were 1:1 propensity score matched, using age at survey, race and ethnicity, marital status, education, access to health care, and US census region. Within each sexual and gender minority grou

SUBMITTER: Boehmer U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560602 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature