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In a newly published article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Chung and Brock offer a state of art review of the various types of sexual dysfunction identified among prostate cancer survivors and the management strategies currently available for sexual rehabilitation after treatment. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: dysfunction, erectile, function, Prevention, sexual, Treatment | 3 Comments »
According to another media release issued on Sunday by the European Association of Urology, only 17 percent of a large cohort of Swedish men with prostate cancer who were potent prior to surgery were still potent 18 months post-surgery (whether they had nerve-sparing or non-nerve-sparing surgery). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: continence, erectile, function, outcome, prostatectomy, surgery, Sweden | 3 Comments »
Data from a newly-published (but very small) randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial show no significant, clinical impact of sildenafil (Viagra®) taken once daily as a treatment to optimize retention of erectile function at up to 2 years after radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: erectile, function, radiation, sildenafil, Viagra | Leave a Comment »
Experienced prostate cancer patients and advocates are well aware that patients’ attitudes to the importance of their sex lives are a critical factor in the decision process when treatment for localized prostate cancer has to be seriously considered. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: desire, function, surgery, Treatment | 32 Comments »
According to data to be presented this afternoon at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial has shown that sildenafil citrate can be used to improve sexual function of prostate cancer patients treated with radiation therapy. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: function, localized, radiation, sexual, sildenafil, therapy | Leave a Comment »
An article just published on line in the journal Urologic Oncology looks at the vexing problem of the degree to which extended periods on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) may have significant impact on the day-to-day cognitive functioning of at least a proportion of men with progressive forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: ADT, androgen, cognitive, deprivation, dysfunction, function, quality of life | 9 Comments »
There has long been a concern that having multiple biopsies over a period of time (for whatever reason) could be associated with a risk for decline in sexual and erectile function. However, as far as we are aware, there has never been any compelling evidence to support or deny this concern. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: active surveillance, annual, biopsy, erectile, function, sexual | 5 Comments »
As many readers of this news service will be aware, good data on the recovery of libido and sexual function after a period of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) are limited. We have long known that such recovery is variable, and we also know that it can take time, but sound data from a large cohort of patients has been “missing in action,” so to speak. A new paper by Ng et al. has now remedied this problem. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen deprivation, function, libido, masculinity, potency, serum, sex, testosterone | 4 Comments »
Two new studies just posted on line in the Journal of Clinical Oncology specifically address some of the adverse effects associated with 12 months of continuous androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, adverse effects, androgen deprivation therapy, cognitive, function, physicial | 9 Comments »
Patients who have surgery as their primary treatment for prostate cancer know that after their surgery they will have lost the ability to ejaculate at orgasm — making orgasm feel very different to their prior experience. It has not been so clear that — over time — the same applies to most radiation therapy patients. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: anejaculation, function, orgasm, radiation, sexual, therapy | 13 Comments »
A new — but very small and short-term study — has attempted to assess the baseline prevalence of cognitive impairment in older men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and changes in cognitive performance over time. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: androgen deprivation, cognitive, function, hormone, performance, therapy | 1 Comment »
We want to specifically draw the readers’ attention to a report by Burnett et al. suggesting that pre-surgical treatment with a single dose of erythropoetin may be able to improve erectile function post-surgery. This small study would need to be replicated in a larger, double-blind, randomized study to offer conclusive data, but the potential is fascinating. (See the abstract of the original report or today’s news update for more information.)
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: erectile, erythropoetin, function | Comments Off
Two new studies address issues related to erectile function and voiding function following radical prostatectomy:
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cryotherapy, erectile, erythropoetin, function, voiding | 1 Comment »
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