Posted on July 23, 2020 by Sitemaster
The idea that most men will recover meaningful erectile and sexual function after treatment for prostate cancer has long been disputed by many in the patient community. We now seem to have some better data supporting the patient perspective. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: erectile, function, QOL, quality of life, sexual, Treatment | 7 Comments »
Posted on June 24, 2019 by Sitemaster
A research group at the University of Otago in New Zealand is continuing to investigate how men treated for prostate cancer deal with sexual dysfunction. We have helped them with this before and will continue to do so. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: activity, post-treatment, sexual, strategies, survey | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sitemaster
The Restore study is a new, NIH/NCI-funded, clinical trial designed to explore what will help gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (collectively, MsM) to recover urinary, sexual, and erectile function after treatment for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: bisexual, erectile, function, gay, MSM, rehabilitation, restoration, sexual, urinary | 6 Comments »
Posted on July 11, 2018 by Sitemaster
A new survey being conducted by an experienced research team at the University of Calgary in Canada is seeking participants. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: distress, sexual, survey | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 14, 2017 by Sitemaster
Current guidelines from the American Urological Association (AUA), the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) all clearly state that, for men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, active surveillance is an appropriate form of first-line management. However, … … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk | Tagged: active, function, preference, sexual, surveillance | 7 Comments »
Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sitemaster
There is a significant knowledge gap concerning sexual function for prostate cancer patients in the men who have sex with men (MSM) community, because all of the existing assessment tools are designed for the heterosexual population. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: function, MSM, post-treatment, research, sexual, survey | 4 Comments »
Posted on July 15, 2017 by Sitemaster
It doesn’t take too much reading or direct experience to realize that, to date, we haven’t been very good at meeting the needs of patients with prostate cancer — or their spouses/partners — when it comes to the sociocultural and psychological needs associated with this disorder. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: distress, emotional, function, partner. spouse, patient, sexual, therapy | 6 Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2017 by Sitemaster
A team of researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada is seeking men with a history of prostate cancer willing to complete a survey related to men’s sexuality. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: health, intimacy, sexual, survey | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 18, 2017 by Sitemaster
A new review article in the journal Sexual Medicine Reviews has addressed current knowledge on the topic of penile rehabilitation after surgery for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: concept, erectile, function, penile, post-surgery, rehabilitation, sexual | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2017 by Sitemaster
Two recent articles by Salonia et al. (from the Fourth International Consultation for Sexual Medicine or ICSM 2015) have provided us with a series of nine recommendations to clinicians regarding sexual rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: erectile, function, recovery, rehabilitation, sexual, surgery | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 4, 2016 by Sitemaster
Salvage radiation adds to the side effects of surgery and may halt the progress made towards healing. Healing takes time. On the other hand, we have learned that adjuvant or early salvage radiation has better oncological outcomes than waiting, the earlier the better (see this link). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: adjuvant, erectile, function, radiation, recovery, salvage, sexual, urinary | Leave a comment »
Posted on October 4, 2016 by Sitemaster
The HYPRO trial was designed to detect whether hypofractionation (fewer radiation treatments) was inferior to conventional fractionation (over about 8 weeks of treatment). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: erectile, function, hypofractionation, radiation, sexual | Leave a comment »
Posted on January 18, 2016 by Sitemaster
According to the abstract of a newly published paper by Krouwel et al. in Urology (“the Gold Journal”), we now have formal evidence that most urology residents in at least The Netherlands feel that they receive insufficient training in the management of men with erectile dysfunction. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: counseling, dysfunction, function, sexual, skill, training | 7 Comments »
Posted on January 8, 2016 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper in BJU International has helped to make clear that many surgical patients have unrealistic expectations about their recovery of erectile and sexual function after radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: erectile, expectation, function, Management, prostatectomy, radical, sexual | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 20, 2015 by Sitemaster
A new paper in European Urology has suggested that men with localized prostate cancer who are treated by focal forms of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) have “a return to baseline International Index of Erectile Function — erectile and total International Index of Erectile Function scores” by 6 months after treatment which was maintained at 1 year. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: erectile, focused, function, HIFU, high-intensity, sexual, ultrasound | Leave a comment »