Over the last decade there have been significant improvements in the quality of health care men and women receive for sexual dysfunctions. The ISSM and SMSNA have adopted the image "The Challenge" for our conference as it symbolizes barriers and obstacles which must be overcome to address sexual health in cancer survivors.
Lilly Oncology On Canvas, an art exhibition honoring the physical and emotional journeys people face when confronted by a cancer diagnosis, will be on display at this meeting. The image shown above in the header is a photograph submitted by a healthcare professional to LOOC, 2008.
The target audience for this educational program includes primary care physicians, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, (oncology) nurses, urologists, gynecologists, mental health professionals, allied health and scientists interested in cancer survivorship.
The program will be hosted by a multidisciplinary faculty with expertise in men s and women s sexual health and adolescent medicine.
The goal of the program is to defi ne sexual dysfunctions experienced by cancer survivors, and introduce sexual medicine into the care plans for cancer survivors.
Tentative topics
- Cancer survivorship and sexual health: what are the issues facing men, women and children
- who survive malignancy.
- Cancer survivor care plans addressing sexual function.
- Erectile dysfunction following surgery and radiotherapy for colorectal and GU malignancies.
- Female Sexual Dysfunction following mastectomy and treatments for pelvic malignancies.
- Pediatric cancer survivors and normal sexual maturation through adolescence.
- Fertility and the cancer survivor.
- Body image in cancer survivors.
- Psychosexual dysfunctions and couple issues in cancer survivors.
- Secondary malignancies and behavior health modifi cation in cancer survivors.
- Intimacy in cancer survivors.
