
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Transgender women have a risk of prostate cancer, even after gender-affirming surgeries, yet aren’t “on the radar†for screening by clinicians, new research finds."The entire medical literature on prostate cancer in transgender women, prior to this study, consisted of 10 case reports, leading some to believe it was rare. But this paper shows it isn’t as rare as those case reports suggest," said Dr. Stephen Freedland, associate director for training and education at Cedars-Sinai Cancer Institute in Los Angeles. "Transgender women, no matter what gender-affirming surgeries they may or may not have had, have prostates and are at risk of prostate cancer," he said in a hospital news release.Freedland’s research report details the first...