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Pharmacologic and surgical therapies for sexual dysfunction in male cancer survivors

The recent recognition that many men experience sexual dysfunction following their diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary cancers, has led to the development multiple varied strategies that attempt to restore or preserve that function. In this manuscript we review the understanding of why it happe...

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Autores principales: Kadıoğlu, Ateş, Ortaç, Mazhar, Brock, Gerald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4708121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816821
http://dx.doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2223-4683.2014.12.03
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Sumario:The recent recognition that many men experience sexual dysfunction following their diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary cancers, has led to the development multiple varied strategies that attempt to restore or preserve that function. In this manuscript we review the understanding of why it happens, highlight novel management strategies and discuss the concept of penile rehabilitation (PR) following prostate cancer (PCa) treatment, glans preserving strategies among men diagnosed with penile cancer and address the controversial issue of testosterone therapy in men with PCa.