Oral Presentation Cancer Survivorship Conference 2023

What’s LGBT+ got to do with cancer? (#25)

Tara Winston 1
  1. Cancer Survivor and Advocate, ., ACT, Australia

Fighting cancer is hard enough without the burden of sexuality still feeling like a taboo topic to talk about with your medical professionals. Cancer treatment is not only physically demanding but extremely mentally draining… If the people flushing poison through our blood stream spent a little more time finding out who their patients really are, they could maintain more of the identity that is lost to cancer.