DIAGNOSIS

The results are in.....

New research published in the online medical journal Cancer has a noted finding.

Gay males in California are twice as likely to report a cancer diagnosis as straight males in the state.

The Advocate reports:

The study, which was based on a large health survey conducted by the state of California, sought to explore the impact cancer had on local gay men and lesbians.

According to the results, about 8% of California’s gay men had been diagnosed with some form of cancer versus only about 5% of straight men. Meanwhile, cancer diagnoses among lesbians were more evenly matched with those of straight women.

HIV is speculated to be one of the major contributing reasons for the larger number of diagnoses among gay men.

"There's a higher prevalence of HIV positive men in the gay population, and we know that being HIV positive is related to cancers....