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Toni Atkins urges community to enroll in major cancer-prevention study

SDGLN Staff
March 2nd, 2013

SAN DIEGO – California Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins is invited our community to change the future and defeat cancer by enrolling in a novel cancer prevention study.

Atkins made her appointment to enroll last week in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS-3), and urges others to follow her lead.

New LGBT-inclusive tobacco control initiative launching for California

SDGLN Staff
August 2nd, 2011

LONG BEACH, Calif -- Tobacco control professionals from across the state will gather for the official launch of the newly formed "Advocacy and Data dissemination to achieve Equity for Priority populations on Tobacco" (ADEPT) Project, on August 3, 2011.

The event will take place from 10 - 11 am at the Miller Family Health Education Center, 3820 Cherry Ave (at the Multicultural Pavilions) in Long Beach, 90807.

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Sexual orientation affects cancer survivorship, study finds

SDGLN Staff
May 9th, 2011

Gay men have a higher prevalence of cancer compared with heterosexual men, and lesbian and bisexual female cancer survivors report lower levels of health than heterosexual female cancer survivors.

Those are the conclusions of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

The study’s findings shed light on the types of programs and services that are needed to assist lesbian, gay and bisexual cancer survivors.