Many prostate cancer patients and their partners are unprepared for the impact of treatment on their sexual function, according to new research funded by the Irish Cancer Society.<\/p>\n
Around 4,000 men are diagnosed here each year with the cancer, which means about one in seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.<\/p>\n
The survey involved 1,150 patients and partners.<\/p>\n
It reveals how prostate cancer affects intimacy, mental health and quality of life for both patients and their partners.<\/p>\n
It found that 40% of respondents said they were unprepared for the impact of the treatment on their sexual function.<\/p>\n
It showed that 60% said the impact of treatment on sexual function was worse or much worse than expected.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of prostate cancer patients said that a longer or clearer discussion with their medical team or doctor would have helped them to be more prepared for the impact of treatment on their sexual function.<\/p>\n
Patients with prostate cancer are living longer and survival rates are improving.<\/p>\n
The ICS said the findings of its survey mean that there is a need to look at quality of life for patients with prostate cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many prostate cancer patients and their partners are unprepared for the impact of treatment on their sexual function,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-591904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}