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Existing evidence suggests that sexual minority cancer survivors are less satisfied with the cancer care they received compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Nine studies gave prevalence estimates - two showed higher, four showed no differences, one showed mixed results depending on definitions, one had no comparison group and one gave no sample size.
There were 42 pairs (from the original study which had 370 pairs aged 40 or more) with a mean age of 63.
Frequently the predictive ability of models are not as good in the validation sample as the original sample, so adjustments are made and the model gradually improves. So far, the information we have on breast cancer in lesbians has been both limited and contradictory. Overall these studies suggest that sexual minority women—by using more active and less anxiety focused coping strategies—exhibit adaptive coping in the face of a distressing health threat.
In this study, we identified differences in coping with breast cancer between lesbian and heterosexual women. Seven women developed breast cancer during the observation period and the relative risk of breast cancer was calculated to be 0. e., the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer [Mini-MAC]) was used to measure the following five dimensions of coping: (1) Helplessness–Hopelessness; (2) Anxious Preoccupation; (3) Cognitive Avoidance; (4) Fighting Spirit; and (5) Fatalism. Three of the risk modelling studies suggested a higher rate of breast cancer in LB women compared to heterosexual women and one gave the opposite.Cochran SD, Mays VM: Risk of breast cancer mortality among women cohabiting with same sex partners: findings from the national health interview survey, 1997–2003.