The National LGBT Cancer Network is the first program in the country to address the needs of all LGBT people with cancer and those at risk.

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General information about cancer and the LGBT community

• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Cancer in Our Lives
  http://www.glma.org
• American Cancer Society
  Cancer Facts for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Men and Women
  http://www.cancer.org
• National Cancer Institute
  http://www.cancer.gov
• CDC LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health
  http://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth
• Simms/Mann-UCLA Integrative Oncology Program
  http://www.simmsmanncenter.ucla.edu/8_oncology/8_oncology.htm
• CancerCare's LGBT Program
  http://www.cancercare.org/get_help/special_progs/lgbt.php

Cancer health disparities

• Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Health.
  http://www.gayhealth.com/binary-data/GH_TEXT_BLOCK/attachment/1911.pdf
• The National Alliance for Black Gay Health.
  http://www.nafbgh.org/clearinghouse.html
• National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
  http://crchd.cancer.gov/
• Physicians for Human Rights, The Right to Equal Treatment
  http://physiciansforhumanrights.org
• American Medical Student Association
  http://www.amsa.org/npcw/disparities.cfm

National cancer organizations of
particular interest to LGBT people

• Cancer Support Community
  http://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/
• Mautner Project, The National Lesbian Health Organization.
  http://www.mautnerproject.org/home/
• The National Coalition for LGBT Health
  http://www.lgbthealth.net/
• The Annie Appleseed Project
  http://www.annieappleseedproject.org
• Young Survival Coalition http://www.youngsurvival.org
• Fertile Hope: fertility resources for cancer patients
  http://www.fertilehope.org
• I'm Too Young for This.
  http://www.imtooyoungforthis.org/
• Living Beyond Breast Cancer
  http://www.lbbc.org
• SHARE
  http://www.sharecancersupport.org
• Colorectal Cancer Coalition
  http://fightcolorectalcancer.org
• Breast Cancer Alliance
  http://breastcanceralliance.org
• Lymphoma Research Foundation
  http://www.lymphoma.org
• National Prostate Cancer Coalition
  http://www.fightprostatecancer.org
• Health Care Information Resources
  http://hsl.mcmaster.ca
• OncoLink
  http://oncolink.org
• Men Against Breast Cancer
  http://menagainstbreastcancer.org
• Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
  http://susanlovemd.com
• Cancer Grief
  http://www.cancergrief.com
• Living with Prostate Cancer
  http://prostatecancerblog.net
• Intercultural Cancer Council
  http://www.iccnetwork.org
• Michele Forsten
  http://Micheleforsten.com
• National Coalition for LGBT Health
  http://www.lgbthealth.net
• National LGBT Tobacco Control Network
  http://www.lgbttobacco.org

Anal cancer

• MedlinePlus
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/analcancer.html
• About.com: Gay Life
  http://gaylife.about.com/od/stdinformation/a/hpvanalcancer.htm
• About.com: Aids/HIV
  http://aids.about.com/cs/conditions/a/analpaps.htm
• Gayhealth.com
  http://www.gayhealth.com/templates//index.html
• Analcancerfoundation.org
  http://www.analcancerfoundation.org/

HIV and cancer

• HIV InSite.
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-06
• The Body.
  http://www.thebody.com/content/art14118.html

Bisexual health

• The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute report on bisexual health
  http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/bi_health_5_07.pdf

Transgender people and cancer

• American Cancer Society on trans cancer disparities and risks
  http://www.glbthealth.org/documents/FactSheetRevised-TransgenderedIndividuals.pdf
• Trans Care Project, a joint effort of Transcend Transgender Support & Education Society and Vancouver Coastal Health's Transgender Health Program.
  http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/resources/library/tcpdocs/consumer/medical-cancer.pdf
• Gender.org- Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc.
  http://www.gender.org/resources/dge/gea02003.pdf

Local lesbian cancer organizations

• Long Island Lesbian Cancer Initiative (Long Island, NY)
  http://www.lilci.org
• Lesbian Cancer Initiative (NY, NY)
  http://www.gaycenter.org/program_folders/LCI/program_view
• New York City Lesbian Cancer Support Consortium (NY NY)
  http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/lesbiancancerconsortium
• Lesbian Cancer Support Services (Denver, CO)
  http://www.glbtcolorado.org
• Wingspan—Lesbian Cancer Health Project (Southern AZ)
  http://www.wingspan.org/content/LCHP.php
• The Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative (Atlanta GA)
  http://www.thehealthinitiative.org
• Fenway Community Health (Boston, MA)
  http://www.fenwayhealth.org
• The Hambleton Project (Portland, OR)
  http://www.hambletonproject.org
• Lesbian Community Cancer Project (Chicago, IL)
  http://www.lccp.org
• The Center—Lesbian cancer Support Services (Denver, CO)
  http://www.glbtcolorado.org
• Women's Cancer Resource Center
  http://www.wcrc.org/

• Cancer and the LGBT Community
  • The LGBT Community's Disproportionate Cancer Burden
  • Barriers to LGBT Healthcare
  • LGBT Survivorship Issues
  • The Work of the National LGBT Cancer Network
  • Digest 1 (6/11-9/11)
  • Digest 2 (5/11- 12/11)
• Lesbians and Cancer
  • Lesbians and Breast Cancer
  • Lesbians and Ovarian Cancer
  • Interview with a Lesbian Ovarian Cancer Survivor 1
  • Interview with a Lesbian Ovarian Cancer Survivor 2
  • Mimi's Story
• Gay Men and Cancer
  • Anal Cancer, HIV and Gay Men
• Bisexuals and Cancer
  • Bisexual Women and Breast Cancer
  • Bisexual Women and Ovarian Cancer
  • Anal Cancer, HIV and Bisexual Men
• Transgender/Gender-Nonconforming People and Cancer
  • Transgender Men and Ovarian Cancer
• HIV and Cancer
• HPV and Cancer
  • HPV and Oral Cancer
• Cancer Resources for the LGBT Community