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Session at the 27th World Meeting of Sexual Medicine (WMSM)

February 26, 2026 - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Title:  Beyond Treatment: Sexual Recovery, Cultural Sensitivity, and Counseling After Prostate Cancer.

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Key Takeaways

  • Apply evidence-based Guideline
  • Recommendations in counseling prostate cancer survivors and their partners.
  • Address cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity in sexual rehabilitation strategies.
  • Provide inclusive, patient-centered care to heterosexual and LGBTQ+ populations.
  • Recognize the psychosocial effects of androgen deprivation therapy on body image and sexual identity.
  • Promote interdisciplinary collaboration in posttreatment sexual health recovery.

Program

11.00 – 11.35 AM
Introduction and ISSM & Movember Collaboration
Moderators: Luca Incrocci & Daniela Wittmann

11.35-11.45 AM
How to counsel patients and their partners on the effects of radical prostatectomy on sexual incontinence, loss of ejaculation, changes in penile girth and risk of penile curvature
Speaker: Arthur Burnett

11.45-11.55 AM
How to counsel patients who are gay or bisexual, men who have sex with men, as well as transgender women on sexual functioning after prostate cancer treatment
Speaker: Tet Yap

11.55-12.05 AM
The effects of (novel) androgen deprivation therapy on body image and sexual functioning.
Speaker: Andrew Matthew

12.05-12.30 PM
Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks
Moderators: Luca Incrocci & Daniela Wittmann

Speakers

Arthur Burnett, MD

Professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Andrew Matthew, PhD. C.Psych

Psychologist, Lead, Depts. of Surgical Oncology and Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada Associate Professor, Depts. of Surgery, and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada

Daniela Wittmann, PhD, LMSW

Associate Professor Emerita of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Luca Incrocci, MD, PhD

Professor of Genito-Urinary Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands – Luca Incrocci, MD, PhD – Radiation Oncologist, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Professor Tet Yap

Guys & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust & King’s College London Director, The Klinefelter Syndrome MDT Clinics, UK Lead, KCL Men’s Health Inequalities Research Hub (HiRes)

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