I would also suggest that you do not base your selection of plastic surgeon primarily on costs of surgery; keep in mind that revisionary surgery may be more costly in many ways. Although the recruitment strategy is not clear, it seems likely that participants were recruited on the basis of being lesbians with breast cancer, or with an interest in breast cancer. tested the hypothesis that breast cancer incidence rates might be higher in geographical areas where more LB women live by linking a US cancer registry to a census. However, losing weight after the menopause is associated with less risk because of the oestrogenic effects of adipose tissue.

The Gail model results showed conflicting estimates of risk for lesbians compared to the comparator groups. In my experience, patients in your situation, tend to desire to have quite a significant breast reduction procedure performed; in other words, their goals tend to be achieving as small an outcome as possible. Also, the sample size is relatively small so the 95% confidence intervals for the relative risk estimate are quite wide, and the follow up period is short. County-level association of sexual minority density with breast cancer incidence: results from an ecological study.categorised as lifetime lesbian – sex only with women ever, and adult lesbian – sex only with women after 45 years old) and 1420 women who had never had adult sex (1. Is it that you love tits a whole lot more than you love vag, or that you hate vag a whole lot more than you love tits? Even if a lesbian is in a stable relationship, she is less likely to have health insurance coverage from her partner because she will not be seen as a spouse. Conversely, breast cancer rates are higher in more affluent women yet income levels in LB women are relatively low.

They speculated that a young mean age among respondents (36 years), healthy-volunteer bias and residual confounding all could have caused underestimation of the prevalence of cancer among lesbians. Coding of prevalence studies and the other types of studies included in this systematic review in medical databases is poor so there is a greater risk of missing relevant studies that could have been included, compared to systematic reviews of, for example, randomised controlled trials. As 1989 was the year that Denmark passed its law permitting homosexual partnerships (the first in the world), the sample was among the first partnerships to be recognised and many may have been in long-term relationships beforehand. Therefore, of the six studies, it is likely that Valanis 2000 may have more believable results than the others.And, as a result realizing that the majority, the “straight” girls, found women attractive and loved boobs, but refrained from acting on that because they didn’t actually want to have sex with them. London: Kings College London, We Are Macmillan Cancer Support, National Cancer Intelligence Network; 2008. Data from the surveys were pooled, and health and demographic variables were coded into a common format so they could be compared. 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. 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.