Sexual and Gender Minority Invisibility in Cancer Studies: A Call for Effective Recruitment Methods to Address Cancer Disparities

J Clin Oncol. 2023 Nov 20;41(33):5093-5098. doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.00655. Epub 2023 Sep 19.

¹ Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
² Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.
³ Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
⁴ Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
⁵ Adult and Geriatric Health, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN.
⁶ Malecare Cancer Support, New York, NY.
⁷ Department of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Abstract

#LGBTQ+ people with cancer are invisibilized: A call for #intersectional cancer research (link here) #healthequity