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Transgender women on hormones face higher risk of prostate cancer going undiagnosed: Study

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Research published in the Journal of American Medical Association reported on transgender women's risk of prostate cancer in a first-of-its-kind study.

and found trans male"rates were lower than expected based on prior prostate cancer incidence estimates in cisgender male veterans."

"We’re still very much at the beginning of how best to care for this population — and it’s a population that will probably increase, in terms of the number of people openly identifying as transgender," Nik-Ahd said.

 

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