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.
Program
14:00-14:11 PM – Introduction – global perspective on PCa and background – Philip Odiyo Ouma
14.12-14:15 PM – Impact on sexual function – John Mulhall
14.16-14:20 PM – Assessment – Christian Nelson
14.20-14:30 PM – Biomedical treatments – John Mulhall
14.30-14:35 PM – Education and health systems – Arthur Burnett
14.35- 14:40 PM – Q&A
Speakers
- Philip Odiyo Ouma, MS
- Daniela Wittmann, PhD, MSW
- John Mulhall, MD
- Christian Nelson, PhD
- Arthur Burnett, MD
