Session at the World Meeting on Sexual Medicine (WMSM 2024)

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