Radiotherapy for prostate cancer and sexual health issue

Radiotherapy for prostate cancer and sexual health issue

For prostate cancer the main one of the main survivorship issues is sexual function and that hit across the board whatever treatment modality you're using.  If that is affected it's because of the real estate it's because of the testosterone and also I think one of the main priorities for many of these patients. So there are a couple of options, I think first thing is just having a frank conversation and helping deal with expectations, helping patients know that this is a common side effect and that it's something that's important to us, for them and we'll be able to manage those side effects as they come up For many men that you know clear focus on the cancer treatment at the beginning but they want to know what's going to happen after and what an options am I going to have. We are looking at strategies to protect erectile function and that might either be through how we deliver the radiation dose it might be through using combination modalities that allow us …