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Inclusive Cancer Registries for Gender-Diverse Patients

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2025.12616

August 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses various challenges in identifying transgender and gender-diverse patients in cancer registries and electronic health records, highlights how these challenges contribute to disparities in outcomes and treatment, and calls for standardized data collection to improve cancer care outcomes among these patients.

Corresponding Author: Julian L. Gendreau, MD, MS, Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health gendreauj@ohsu.edu).

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