Side effects of Prostate Cancer treatment

Unfortunately, treatment for prostate cancer is an attack on the body and side effects are unavoidable. They vary from being negligible or inconvenient to being embarrassing and even to being severely disabling. Here are some links, they are confined to treatments for prostate cancer:

Radiotherapy

 

Hormone therapy 

 

Urinary problems

Some treatments for prostate cancer may cause you to leak urine (urinary incontinence) or other problems passing urine. There are treatments and lifestyle changes that can help manage or even stop these problems.

 

Sex and prostate cancer

Some treatments for prostate cancer can affect your sex life. Many men continue to enjoy sex throughout their lives and well into old age and may be worried about how treatment for prostate cancer will affect them.

 

Sex after prostate cancer

A detailed survey was carried out of 30 members and 20 of their partners of support groups belonging to the Prostate Cancer Support Federation. (Not yet published.) Only three men reported their sex lives as satisfactory, in only one case did the partner feel the same. Over half the respondents replied that their sexual appetite was "not satisfied at all".

This casts doubt on clinician's claims for improving outcomes of treatment where sexual function is concerned. Also, significantly, only half the men could or would persuade their wives to participate, revealing a lack of communication about the side-effects of treatment. For example wives may be unaware of the libido-destroying effects of hormone therapy.


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