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3/2024
vol. 23
 
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Review paper

Oncosexology – selected issues taking into account the problem of sexological care of patients with cancer

Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman
1
,
Piotr Merks
2
,
Magdalena Pisarska-Krawczyk
3
,
Ewa Jakubek
4
,
Małgorzata Mizgier
5
,
Justyna Jaskulska
6
,
Małgorzata Wójcik
7
,
Urszula Religioni
8
,
Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka
1, 9
,
Witold Kędzia
9

  1. Centre for Paediatric, Adolescent Gynaecology and Sexology Division of Gynaecology, Department of Gynaecology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
  2. Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warszawa, Poland
  3. Nursing Department, President Stanisław Wojciechowski State University of Kalisz, Kalisz, Poland
  4. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Calisia University, Kalisz, Poland
  5. Department of Sports Dietetics, Chair of Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Poznań University of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland
  6. Higher School of Strategic Planning, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
  7. Department of Physiotherapy, Poznań University of Physical Education, Faculty of Sport Sciences in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
  8. School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
  9. Division of Gynaecology, Department of Gynaecology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Menopause Rev 2024; 23(3): 152-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/pm.2024.143482
Online publish date: 2024/10/14
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As can be seen from research, 44% of oncological problems disclose problems in relationships with a partner. About 80% of oncological patients report deterioration of the quality of their sexual life. Although the situation improves, a significant majority of ill persons do not obtain assistance in the scope of sexuality during oncological treatment. Intimacy is an important sphere of life and can support the process of recovery. Intimacy plays special role in the difficult period of the fight against disease. Independently of the applied method of oncological treatment, side effects of therapy can influence one’s sexual life. This means that an increasing number of persons who are healed from cancerous disease are exposed to the long-term undesirable influence of treatment. The process of oncological treatment has an essential impact on the intimate life of those who suffer from oncological diseases. To a great extent, this process and the disease itself contribute to a decrease of the quality of life due to the appearance of symptoms caused by earlier menopause, they negatively influence the feeling desire and sexual performance. Unfortunately, despite the development of oncosexology, sexual problems of oncologically ill persons are not noticed, and sometimes they are played down or overlooked due to everyday problems.
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oncosexology, gynaecology, sexual health

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