Patient-reported sexual toxicity after radiation therapy in long-term prostate cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To present an overview of patient-reported sexual toxicity in sexually active long-term prostate cancer survivors treated with radiation therapy.

Methods

We used patient-reported outcomes from a study-specific questionnaire surveying symptoms after prostate cancer radiation therapy. Data from 518 men treated at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden from 1993 to 2006 were analysed. The men had undergone primary or salvage external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or EBRT combined with high-dose rate brachytherapy (BT). We also used information from 155 non-treated reference men from the general population with no history of prostate cancer, matched for age and residency.

Results

Median time from treatment to follow-up was 5 years (range: 1-14 years). Am

SUBMITTER: Olsson CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4559833 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature