For Pride Month, I’m advocating for equity in cancer care! In my latest commentary, I’m calling for a paradigm shift that prioritizes the sexual rehabilitation of cancer patients, especially gay and bisexual men, whose sexual health needs are often overlooked. Read my commentary in JAMA Oncology and join the conversation on making cancer care more […]
Sexual rehabilitation of gay and bisexual prostate cancer (PCa) patients is based on heteronormative assumptions of sex, which does not fully consider sexual rehabilitation related to the loss of pleasure and experience of pain during receptive anal intercourse (RAI). It is estimated that 10-23% of gay/bisexual men (GBM) treated for PCa experience anodyspareunia (i.e., painful […]
This is a study that I will present at the 2022 International Academy of Sex Research annual scientific conference. Introduction: Sexual dysfunction is a common adverse outcome of prostate cancer (PCa) treatment. In prostate cancer research, sexual dysfunction is based on heteronormative assumptions of sex (e.g., erections firm enough for vaginal intercourse); therefore, current evidence […]