Specialists and Canada Drugs Online Provide Health Warning to Gay Men

Ulrike Boehmer, an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health, and author of the study on the different health risks linked to sexual orientation, published online in May 2011 in Cancer that gay men have higher risk of being infected with HIV, while lesbians are more likely to get breast cancer.  Thus, their consumption of Canada drugs is greater compared to straight males and females.

Researchers conducted surveys on more than 122,000 residents of California from 2001, 2003 and 2005. Particularly, the survey requested the respondents to specify their sexual orientation and if they had been detected with cancer. 

Approximately 8 percent of the gay men had/have cancer – twice the rate of the heterosexual and bisexual men involved in the survey.  Lesbians did not have a higher rate of cancer compared to other women, but their rate of being cancer survivors is roughly twice more likely than the heterosexual women.  It clearly shows that their intake of Canadian prescription drugs is higher in order to treat their illnesses.

Liz Margolies, Executive Director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, who is familiar with the research study, added that, "There's a painful dearth of data about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health in general."

Further, experts and specialists believe that gay men are more susceptible to anal, lung, testicular and immune-system cancers; and, lesbians are more vulnerable to breast cancer, possibly because majority of them don’t conceive, give birth and breast feed.

However, the study cannot conclude if gays and lesbians have higher risk of developing cancer in the very first place, because it did not involve neither individuals who died because of the disease (obviously dead people can no longer answer questions) nor people who are too unwell to respond to survey questions, emphasized Boehmer.

"I can't tell you if we have an increased rate of lung cancer, because no national cancer registries are collecting information about sexual orientation," Margolies stated having thought that solid statistics is difficult to obtain.  "We're left hidden in that data, which is critical for us to have. We know that white women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer and black women more likely to die from it. That's important to know, and we need to know similar things so we can get funding and set up programs that address our needs."  In lieu, once this information is extracted and available, the pharmaceutical industry can easily formulate Canadian drugs that will address such needs.