The Moving On Study report presents the findings of research concerning the experiences of Australian gay men following diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. The results of this study suggest a number of key considerations.

• The experience of gay men diagnosed with, and treated for, prostate cancer is different from that of heterosexual men, whose experiences currently dominate what is known about men’s experiences of prostate cancer in the academic literature and among many health professionals.
• Sexuality and sexual identity play an important part for gay men at diagnosis and during the treatment of prostate cancer. Gay men experience forms of exclusion from the moment of diagnosis through successive practices of treatment, care and management. At times, gay men are compelled to conceal or manage information about their sexualities in clinical settings in ways that perpetuate a discursive silence regarding their experience.
• This discursive silence is further sustained in gay community health settings where prostate cancer does not feature as an important health issue in the way HIV/AIDS and sexual health do.
• This discursive silence also contributed to a problem in recruiting gay men, and especially gay male partners of gay men, for research on these issues. This potentially inhibits the research still needing to be done on the impact on prostate cancer in gay men.