Disparities in psychological distress impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cancer survivors

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1384-1391

  Kamen, Charles ^a   Mustian, Karen M ^a   Dozier, Ann ^a   Bowen, Deborah J ^b   Li, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; psychological distress; sexuality; survivors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LGBT PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROPENSITY SCORE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TRANSGENDER; BISEXUALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEXUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946472480     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3746     Document Type: Article

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