Using cancer registry data for recruitment of sexual minority women: successes and limitations.

Objective: To identify and recruit an unknown and presumably small subgroup of survivors, that is, lesbian or bisexual women with breast cancer.

Methods: This report describes our multistep approach to recruit a representative sample of heterosexual and sexual minority breast cancer survivors. We used census data to identify geographic areas with a greater prevalence of sexual minority women (SMW), that is, lesbian and bisexual women.

Comparing women of differing sexual orientations using population-based sampling.

Objectives: Area probability sampling was used to conduct a women's health survey in Boston, MA. Sexual minority women (SMW) and heterosexual adult women were compared on a variety of health-related measures.

Methods: SMW-rich census tracts were identified and mapped onto zip code boundaries.