Addressing barriers and advancing equitable colorectal cancer screening in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning population
Pavan Kumar Reddy Kalluru, Sai Sudha Valisekka, Yamini Katamreddy, Apoorva Cherukuri, Deekshitha Kuchi, Sowmya Manjari Siddenthi, Saikiran Mandyam
Pavan Kumar Reddy Kalluru, Department of Gastroenterology, West Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim, CA 92804, United States
Sai Sudha Valisekka, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States
Yamini Katamreddy, Department of Gastroenterology, Saint Michael's Medical Center, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
Apoorva Cherukuri, Department of Internal Medicine, West Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim, CA 92804, United States
Deekshitha Kuchi, Department of Gastroenterology, NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada 520008, Andhra Pradesh, India
Sowmya Manjari Siddenthi, Department of Internal Medicine, Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, CA 96001, United States
Saikiran Mandyam, Department of Nephrology, Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ 07753, United States
Author contributions: Kalluru PKR and Valisekka SS conceptualized the idea and prepared the first draft; Katamreddy Y and Cherukuri A performed the literature search and extracted the data; Kuchi D assessed the relevance of the extracted data and contributed to the writing of the first draft; Kuchi D and Mandyam S prepared the final manuscript for submission; Siddenthi SM and Mandyam S critically reviewed the draft and proposed the changes; all authors thoroughly reviewed and endorsed the final manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Pavan Kumar Reddy Kalluru, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, West Anaheim Medical Center, 3033 West Orange Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, United States.
dr.pavan96rdy@gmail.com
Received: May 8, 2025
Revised: June 3, 2025
Accepted: August 25, 2025
Published online: March 20, 2026
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