Prostate Cancer and Transgender Patients: Providing Gender-Affirming Care During Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Drs Sandhya Srinivas and Aria F. Olumi discuss barriers to prostate cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment for transgender patients, and ways to provide gender-affirming, wraparound care.

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Resources

Prostate Cancer https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1967731-overview

Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women: What Does a Urologist Need to Know? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34157213/

How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy: An Updated Literature Review With an Eye on the Future https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34982475/

Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comprehensive, Systematic Review of All Peer-Reviewed Literature and Methods of Assessing Patient-Centered Outcomes (Part 1: Breast/Chest, Face, and Voice) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33443903/

Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comprehensive, Systematic Review of All Peer-Reviewed Literature and Methods of Assessing Patient-Centered Outcomes (Part 2: Genital Reconstruction) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34914663/

Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/457394-overview

Prostate Cancer Incidence Under Androgen Deprivation: Nationwide Cohort Study in Trans Women Receiving Hormone Treatment https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32594155/

Consensus on the Treatment and Follow-up for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Report From the First Global Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference for Developing Countries (PCCCDC) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33856891/

Prostate-specific Antigen Screening in Transgender Patients https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36344317/

Multiparametric MRI for the Evaluation of Prostate Cancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35704822/

BRCA2 Gene Mutation and Prostate Cancer Risk. Comprehensive Review and Update https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31915789/

PSMA PET-CT in the Diagnosis and Staging of Prostate Cancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36359439/

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) https://www.wpath.org/