Abstract
There is increased awareness of transgender physical and mental health widely and in academic research. A significant proportion of transgender men will retain their cervix with an increased risk of cervical cancer. In this review of cervical cancer screening among transgender men, we try to estimate how many transgender men still have a cervix, understand to identify challenges and barriers to cervical screening and propose possible solutions. Organised cervical screening
Tweetable abstractTransgender men need access to cervical screening.programmes need to consider the needs of this population, in particular the provision of HPV self-sampling.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 822-826 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | BJOG-An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 2 Oct 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2021 |
Bibliographical note
FundingMA was supported by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, through the RISCC Network (grant no.847845)
Keywords
- Cancer
- cervix
- screening
- transgender
- transmen
- POPULATIONS
- PREVALENCE
- TO-MALE PATIENTS
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"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Weyers, S, Garland, SM, Cruickshank, M, Kyrgiou, M, Arbyn, M. Cervical cancer prevention in transgender men: a review. BJOG 2021; 128: 822– 826, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16503. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions."