Cancer survivorship and sexual orientation

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3796-3804

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Miao, Xiaopeng ^a   Ozonoff, Al ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; homosexuality; prevalence; quality of life; survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; BISEXUAL MALE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MELANOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80051546587     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25950     Document Type: Article

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