The lesbian participants were recruited mostly via self-administered questionnaires in cross-sectional surveys but one was an audit of medical records. Others hypothesized that sexual minorities develop mastery of cognitive processes to deal with distress and are therefore better able to cope with a life-threatening illness like breast cancer. A, B) Anxious preoccupation regressed on children, college, and sexual identity controlling for stage at diagnosis. How will Linda react when she sees her petite wife go from flat chested to cream filled beach balls?

is reproduced from this report and shows the age-related distribution of breast cancer prevalence in LB women from the six surveys combined, compared to similar results from the NHANES III study (sample size approximately 9000 women). Agrawal R, Sharma S, Bekir J, Conway G, Bailey J, Balen AH, et al: Prevalence of polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome in lesbian women compared with heterosexual women.New with tags: A brand-new, unused and unworn item in its original packaging (such as the original . e., parental responsibility and college education) will exhibit a greater impact on the coping responses among women diagnosed at younger ages.

The one unpublished estimate was high at 8% [ 6], relative to an estimated UK 34-year prevalence of 1. It had the largest sample of lesbians (n = 665) and bisexual women (n = 309) which were compared to a much larger sample of heterosexual women (n = 86,418).Rankow and Tessaro (1998) reported the results of a survey conducted in North Carolina among the LB community between June and November 1995 [ 18]. lists studies assessing the percentages of individual risk factors in LB women compared to heterosexual women where risk models were not used to combine results.

Six risk-factor estimates suggested higher risk and one no difference between LB and heterosexual women.The second parent study relied exclusively on targeted recruitment from the community through the Dr.