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/