A cancer screening crisis for transgender patients: Discrimination, patient unease, provider ignorance, and a highly gendered health care system are impeding cancer screening and risk assessment in the transgender population. In this article, the first of a 2-part series, we explore how clinicians can begin to address those barriers

MeSH terms

• Early Detection of Cancer / standards*
• Female
• Gender Identity
• Harassment, Non-Sexual / psychology
• Health Services Needs and Demand / organization & administration*
• Health Services Needs and Demand / standards
• Healthcare Disparities*
• Humans
• Male
• Mass Screening / organization & administration*
• Mass Screening / psychology
• Mass Screening / standards
• Neoplasms / diagnosis*
• Neoplasms / prevention & control
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Risk Assessment
• Transgender Persons / psychology*