Bowen Deborah J, Boehmer Ulrike
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Cancer Causes Control. 2007 May;18(4):343-9. doi: 10.1007/s10552-007-0115-1. Epub 2007 Feb 26.
To consider options for gathering cancer incidence and risk factor data in sexual minority individuals.
Sexual minority individuals may experience cancer risk disparities, due to lifestyle and reproductive differences compared with heterosexual people. However, cancer registry systems do not routinely collect sexual minority status. Other methods of obtaining such data and comparing cancer rates and risks between sexual minority and heterosexual people are discussed. These include building on existing registry membership with a targeted survey, using existing data sources, and estimating sexual orientation status with related data.
Efforts described here could provide support for or refute the hypothesis that disparities exist in selected cancer rates in sexual minority populations and could guide targeted efforts to reduce any disparities.
探讨收集性少数群体癌症发病率和风险因素数据的方法。
与异性恋者相比，性少数群体由于生活方式和生殖方面的差异，可能面临癌症风险差异。然而，癌症登记系统通常不常规收集性少数群体身份信息。本文讨论了获取此类数据以及比较性少数群体与异性恋者之间癌症发病率和风险的其他方法。这些方法包括通过有针对性的调查在现有登记系统基础上进行拓展、利用现有数据源以及通过相关数据估算性取向状况。
本文所述的努力可为支持或反驳性少数群体特定癌症发病率存在差异这一假说提供依据，并可为减少任何差异的针对性努力提供指导。
