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Transgender women with prostate cancer are under-represented in national cancer registries

Transgender women are extensively under-represented in national cancer databases. Improved representation is urgently needed to bridge the evidence gap for this growing population and to inform prostate cancer epidemiology and professional guidelines.

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J.C.H. receives research support from the Frederick J. and Theresa Dow Wallace Fund of the New York Community Trust and also receives salary support from NIH (R01 CA241758, R01 CA259173 and R01 CA273031), PCORI CER-2019C1-15682 and CER-2019C2-17372, and a Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award. The other authors declare no competing interests.

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Kaplan-Marans, E., Zhang, T.R., Zhao, L.C. et al. Transgender women with prostate cancer are under-represented in national cancer registries. Nat Rev Urol 20, 195–196 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-022-00688-w

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