Psychosexual Care in Prostate Cancer Survivorship
Current systematic reviews on psychosexual concerns cover a range of topics. The most important findings are as follows.
Some tend to focus on aetiology of psychosexual concerns post treatment. Whereas others tend to review psychosocial interventions that can be used to improve communication within this cohort. Other reviews look at QoL across several cancer types. Specifically for PC, it was found that patients did have psychosexual concerns post treatment that were unaddressed. Others review literature on rehabilitation, concluding there are no consensus guidelines regarding this. Goldfarb et al., examined sexual health in cancer survivors, and found early intervention (was required post therapy, with fertility preservation in the young. Latini et al. went one step further. They identified psychosexual interventions in studies as a primary goal had better results.
Furthermore, they identified that this needed to be personalised and tailored.
Current Systematic Reviews Relating to Psychosexual Care
Psychosexual care
Current systematic reviews on psychosexual concerns cover a range of topics. The most important findings are as follows.
Some tend to focus on aetiology of psychosexual concerns post treatment. Whereas others tend to review psychosocial interventions that can be used to improve communication within this cohort. Other reviews look at QoL across several cancer types. Specifically for PC, it was found that patients did have psychosexual concerns post treatment that were unaddressed. Others review literature on rehabilitation, concluding there are no consensus guidelines regarding this. Goldfarb et al., examined sexual health in cancer survivors, and found early intervention (was required post therapy, with fertility preservation in the young. Latini et al. went one step further. They identified psychosexual interventions in studies as a primary goal had better results.
Furthermore, they identified that this needed to be personalised and tailored.
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