Title
Guidelines for Sexual Health Care for Prostate Cancer Patients: Recommendation of an International Panel
Guiding Principles
- The healthcare provider plays an active role in routinely addressing sexual concerns in prostate cancer survivorship.
- Sexuality and sexual recovery are multi-dimensional.
- The role of grief and mourning in couples’ recovery of sexual intimacy has emerged as a path towards a new sexual paradigm despite sexual dysfunction.
- Men rarely return to baseline sexual function after prostate cancer treatment.
- Including the partner in sexual health counseling, if both partners agree, is preferable when men are partnered.
- Support by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers is needed to best assist support men and their partners who desire to recover sexual intimacy after prostate cancer therapy.
Speakers
- Daniela Wittmann, PhD, MSW – Associate Professor Emerita Department of Urology, Assocatie Director of the Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer, University of Michigan, USA
- John Mulhall, MD MSc FECSM FACS FRCSI- Director Sexual & Reproductive Medicine Program Urology Service
