Jen sent me this article about a study conducted by Stephanie Roberts, M.D., medical director at Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services in San Francisco, and Sue Dibble, RN, an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Francisco, which found that gay women reported having had more breast biopsies, “which are a serious risk factor for the development of breast cancer,” than straight women. The study also found that “lesbians had had fewer pregnancies–a risk factor for cancer because it means that they go through more menstrual cycles and thus are exposed to more estrogen over their lifetime than women who have children.”

The article was published back in 1999, but it’s never too late to share health care information.