Sexual and reproductive complications and concerns of survivors of childhood, adolescent and adult cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cancer survivors may experience infertility and sexual dysfunction following cancer treatment. Survivors report significant gaps in oncofertility care and consider these issues important, yet they are rarely discussed. The aims of this study were to evaluate survivors' sexual and reproductive complications across age groups and to identify specific groups of survivors at risk for sexual and reproductive complications.

Method

We report data collected from survivors of cancers diagnosed in childhood, adolescence and adulthood following the development and piloting of a reproductive survivorship patient reported outcome measure (RS-PROM).

Results

One hundred and fifty survivors participated in the study (mean age at cancer diagnosis was 23.2 years [SD, 10.3 years

SUBMITTER: Gerstl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324690 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature