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Supported by the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers and the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through the Cancer Center Support Grant, award number P30 CA008748. S.V.C. is also supported by NIH award K22-CA234400.
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Clements, M.B., Walters, C.B., Lynch, K.A. et al. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Male Sexual Function Do Not Meet the Needs of Sexual Minority Men. Arch Sex Behav 52, 3193–3200 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02688-2
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