Editors:
- First book ever written on cancer in LGBT communities
- Offers an in-depth look at the most up to date research in this field
- Provides a roadmap for future researchers, policy makers, advocates and health care providers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding and Reducing the Risk for Cancer
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Screening for Cancer in LGBT Populations
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Cancer Survivorship
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Cancer at the Intersection
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About this book
This book covers the scope of current knowledge of cancer in the LGBT community across the entire cancer continuum, from understanding risk and prevention strategies in LGBT groups, across issues of diagnosis and treatment of LGBT patients, to unique aspects of survivorship and death and dying in these communities. Each chapter includes an in depth analysis of the state of the science, discusses the many remaining challenges and unanswered questions and makes recommendations for research, policy and programmatic strategies required to address these. Focus is also placed on the diversity of the LGBT communities.
Issues that are unique to cancer in LGBT populations are addressed including the social, economic and cultural factors that affect cancer risk behaviors, barriers to screening, utilization of health care services, and legislation that directly impacts the health care of LGBT patients, healthcare settings that are heterosexist and unique aspects of patient-provider relationships such as disclosure of sexual orientation and the need for inclusion of expanded definition of family to include families of choice.
The implications of policy change, its impact on healthcare for LGBT patients are highlighted, as are the remaining challenges that need to be addressed. A roadmap for LGBT cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, survivorship, including treatment and end of life care is offered for future researchers, policy makers, advocates and health care providers.
Reviews
“This book addresses the inadequacy of care of cancer patients among the LGBT community and discusses the challenges that need to be addressed. … The audience includes practitioners addressing needs of this community, including common concerns and treating and screening suggestions. The book is also aimed at policy makers and advocates.” (Jessica C. Baxter, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Community Sciences, Boston Univ. School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ulrike Boehmer
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College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
Ronit Elk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cancer and the LGBT Community
Book Subtitle: Unique Perspectives from Risk to Survivorship
Editors: Ulrike Boehmer, Ronit Elk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15057-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15056-7Published: 25 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34936-7Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15057-4Published: 09 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biomedicine general, Oncology, General Practice / Family Medicine, Quality of Life Research, Psychology Research