Sexual Function in the Prostate Cancer Patient

About this book

Sexual dysfunction presents a major challenge to physicians who take on the task of treating men with prostate cancer. While curing the disease and saving a life is paramount, improving technologies and therapies now offer skilled surgeons and clinical oncologists the opportunity to eradicate the disease without compromising sexual function. In Sexual Function of the Prostate Cancer Patient, John Mulhall and a panel of internationally recognized experts on prostate cancer and sexual function assess in detail the current state of prostate cancer treatment. The authors offer a broad overview of the pathophysiology and treatment of erectile dysfunction in men with prostate cancer, reviewing the latest findings regarding erection-sparing radiation therapy and sexual function outcomes after laparascopic and robotic prostatectomy. Additional chapters discuss intra-operative maneuvers to minimize post-operative erectile dysfunction and pharmacologic penile preservation and rehabilitation. Timely and authoritative, Sexual Function in the Prostate Cancer Patient is a highly readable guide to preserving post-prostate cancer sexual function that no urologist or radiation and medical oncologist should be without.

Written for: Urologists, radiation therapists, radiation oncologists

Keywords:

• anti-androgen therapy
• erectile dysfunction
• prostate cancer
• prostatectomy
• sexual function

Table of contents

Ch 1. Sexual Dysfunctions Following Prostate Cancer Treatment
Raanan Tal MD and John P. Mulhall MD

Ch 2. The Impact Of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis And Post-Treatment Sexual Dysfunction On Quality Of Life
David Penson and Christian Nelson

Ch 3. Pathophysiology Of Erectile Dysfunction Following Radical Prostatectomy
Kevin McVary and Carol Podlasek

Ch 4. Pathophysiology Of Erectile Dysfunction Following Radiation Therapy
Victoria Croog and Michael Zelefsky

Ch 5. Evolution Of Radical Prostatectomy As It Pertains To Nerve Sparing
Ofer Yossepowitch and James Eastham

Ch 6. Laparascopic and Robotic Prostatectomy: Sexual Function Outcomes
Bertrand Guillonneau and Karim Touijer

Ch 7. The Development Of Erection Sparing Radiation Therapy. Fact Or Fiction?
P. William McLaughlin and Gregory Merrick

Ch 8. Neuromodulatory Drugs For The Radical Prostatectomy Patient
Arthur Burnett

Ch 9. Intra-Operative Maneuvers To Minimize Post-Operative Erectile Dysfunction
Joseph Pettus and Farhang Rabbani

Ch 10. Pharmacologic Penile Preservation and Rehabilitation
Alexander Mueller MD and John P. Mulhall

Ch 11. Impact Of Androgen Deprivation On Male Sexual Function
Ricardo Munarriz and Abdul Traish

Ch 12. The Utility Of Pde5 Inhibitors After Radical Prostatectomy
Andrea Salonia, Alberto Briganti, Andrea Gallina, and Francesco Montorsi

Ch 13. Injectable Therapies After Prostate Cancer Therapy
Andrew McCullough

Ch 14. Non-Pharmacologic ED Treatments After Prostate Cancer Therapy
Brian Lane and Karl Montague

Ch 15. Androgen Supplementation In The Prostate Cancer Patient
Abe Morgentaler

Ch 16. Future Therapies Applicable To Post-Radical Pelvic Surgery Patients
Tom Lue and Anthony J. Bella