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Surveillance of cancer among sexual and gender minority populations: Where are we and where do we need to go?
Author(s) -
Gomez Scarlett Lin,
Duffy Christine,
Griggs Jennifer J.,
John Esther M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32384
Subject(s) - medicine , sexual minority , data collection , cancer , population , family medicine , data quality , demography , gerontology , sexual orientation , environmental health , psychology , social psychology , sociology , metric (unit) , statistics , operations management , mathematics , economics
Systematic collection of high‐quality data on sexual and gender minority status is fundamental to assessing and monitoring the burden of cancer in this understudied and underserved population. The majority of hospitals do not collect these data, and physicians' offices do not perceive the data to be medically relevant.