SPOTLIGHT -
Sexual Health
Your Sexual Health as a Cancer Survivor
Dr. Mindy Goldman from the UCSF Hellen Diller Comprehensive Care Center, discusses sexual side effects that cancer survivors face, and offers medication and lifestyle fixes to promote healthy and safe sexual encounters.
Speaking Out: Seeking Sexual Healing
Cancer treatment can take a toll on sexual health, but multiple therapies can help ease these undiscussed side effects. To get help, speak up.
Sex and Cancer
Talking about sex during and after cancer treatment can be tricky. With the issues surrounding cancer in the equation, what is supposed to be unspoken and mystical now requires some good communication.
How to Have the Sex Talk During and After Cancer
One expert shares advice for opening the line of communication between patients and health care providers, as well as their partners.
Speaking Out About the Unspoken Broken
Breast cancer affects all aspects of a marriage. Intimacy is one of the most affected areas, but is also one of the least talked about. In this article, learn how one survivor’s life has been drastically changed.
Leading Cancer Centers Lack Availability of Sexual Aids
Despite awareness that many cancer survivors suffer from treatment-related sexual dysfunction, sexual aids and resources are not readily available to them — even at leading cancer centers throughout the United States.
Shining a Spotlight on Prostate Cancer
What do Bill Nye the Science Guy, fashion designer Michael Kors and one very special prostate cancer advocate all have in common? Blue jackets, a runway and the ultimate goal of raising awareness for prostate cancer.
Let's Talk About Sexual Intimacy
Expert Leslie Schover, Ph.D., offers advice — that really works — on sex after cancer treatment.
Finding Your PATHS and Addressing Sexual Health
A free online pilot program helps people with cancer and their partners work through sexual health and fertility obstacles.
Surviving the Aftereffects of Cancer
It's time to start paying attention to what comes after cancer treatment.