Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer
"Finally! Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue." --Michelle Melin, M.P.P., Director of Patient Services Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization\ "An excellent, well-researched book that responds to the needs of survivors." --Anna Meadows, M.D. Director, Division of Oncology and Children's Cancer Research Center Children's Hospital of Phildadelphia.\ Now as never before cancer survivors are discovering their potential for renewed sexuality, which many may never...
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"Finally! Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue." —Michelle Melin, M.P.P., Director of Patient Services Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization "An excellent, well-researched book that responds to the needs of survivors." —Anna Meadows, M.D. Director, Division of Oncology and Children's Cancer Research Center Children's Hospital of Phildadelphia. Now as never before cancer survivors are discovering their potential for renewed sexuality, which many may never have thought possible. In this comprehensive new book, the leading authority in the field carefully and reassuringly explains your options and gives you the accurate, up-to-date information you need to take advantage of them. Now you can make the decisions that are best for you based on recent medical advances and the newest perspectives. This unique guide covers: * The kinds of sexual problems both men and women are likely to face after treatment —and state-of-the-art solutions * The most effective infertility treatments * How to assess the risks of pregnancy * The latest information on body image, low sex drive, performance anxieties, medications, sex aids, and reconstructive surgery * Special topics such as sex after breast or prostate cancer, and the specific problems facing gays, singles, and survivors of childhood cancers. Booknews Addresses the needs of people who have sexual problems as the result of cancer and cancer treatments. Covers emotional and communication issues as well as the particular needs of those who have had breast, prostate, and many other types of cancer. Also discusses female and male infertility, survivors of childhood cancer, gay and lesbian cancer survivors, and sex after radical surgery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionHow to Use This Book1Sex, Cancer, and Your Emotions32Am I Normal? Men's Sexual Health143Greater Expectations: Women's Sexual Health214Getting the Words Out: Talking about Sex305Going Back to Bed426Safer Sex after Cancer: Preventing Disease and Unwanted Pregnancy527Getting the Help You Need for a Sexual Problem618Where Did My Libido Go?649Enhancing Sexual Desire after Cancer7110Causes of Erection Problems7911How to Mend a Broken Part: Restoring Erections8612The Bells Aren't Ringing: No Orgasms, Slow Orgasms, and Dry Orgasms10613Causes of Painful Sex11214Overcoming Pain during Sex11615Empty Arms: The Pain of Infertility13516Maybe a Baby? Researching Your Options13917Sperm Manufacture: When Cancer Treatment Shuts Down the Line14518Special Delivery: Getting the Sperm to the Egg15119Women's Fertility: A Nonrenewable Resource15720Pregnancy and Cancer: What Are the Risks?16521Postcancer Kids: Are They Healthy?16822Having Whose Baby? Third-Party Reproduction17623Myths about Sex, Women's Health, and Breast Cancer18724It's Not Prostrate Cancer19925Sex with a Part Missing20726Survivors of Childhood Cancer22027Gay and Lesbian Cancer Survivors22628Sex and the Single Survivor234A Final Thought244Resources245Bibliography251Glossary273Index281
\ From the PublisherLoss of sexual desires is one of the most common results of cancer treatment, and yet that loss and its link to infertility are often ignored by doctors, especially outside the major cancer centers. \ It is a complex problem with many causes. Damage to the ovaries from radiation therapy, for example, impairs hormone production and may result in lowered sexual interest. Removal of the testicles in testicular cancer causes a loss of testosterone and of desire, as can bone marrow transplants.\ Pain relievers, nausea drugs, beta-blockers for high blood pressure and tranquilizers and antidepressants also decrease libido. As the author, an associate professor of behavioral science at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, sums it up: "It's hard to get in the mood for sex when you are generally feeling lousy. Any cancer treatment that produces fatigue, chronic pain, nausea or weakness can decrease your interest."\ This valuable book provides accurate information on the causes of these important problems, and offers some reassuring and workable solutions. Many of the suggestions are helpful not only for cancer patients but for people with other illnesses, the elderly and those who believe that sex must involve penetration to provide erotic pleasure. \ The author includes sections on exploring sexual touch, on intercourse positions that minimize pain and on exercises that help men and women cope with the genital pain that often occurs after cancer. She also dispels some common myths about sex and cancer, among them that having sexual relations cause cancer to spread, that giving up sex will help cure cancer, that mastectomy destroys a woman's sex life and that cancer is contagious through sex. \ The physical aspects of cancer and its treatment are not the only things that interfere with sexuality, according to the author. She writes, "It is the emotional reactions people have to cancer that most commonly cause sexual problems." (The New York Times, October 2, 2001)\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsAddresses the needs of people who have sexual problems as the result of cancer and cancer treatments. Covers emotional and communication issues as well as the particular needs of those who have had breast, prostate, and many other types of cancer. Also discusses female and male infertility, survivors of childhood cancer, gay and lesbian cancer survivors, and sex after radical surgery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
