Considered as taboo, sexual difficulties and couple intimacy remain rarely tackled by patients and again less by the oncologist practicians. It might seem that faced with the vital stake of disease, this kind of worries seem to be frivolous, indeed shameful to be tackled. The current study had an objective to assess the impacts of cancer on male sexuality followed and treated in medical service in University Hospital of Brazzaville. Studying male sexual disorder of patients with cancer in medical oncology service in university hospital of Brazzaville. It was a retrospective study, from April 1st to July 31st 2018. All patients with cancer aged at least 18 years old with a performance of WHO between 0-2 were included. About one hundred (100) patients we examined whose eighty four (84) men, it appears that the most sexual disorder found is the one of craving, then the one of orgasm. Certain troubles had a link with the onset of cancer (p<5). The men presented a great number of sexual disorder had a cancer of digestive type (47.6%), urogenital (22.6%) and soft tissue (19%). In terms of received treatments: surgery-chemotherapy (men 22%), chemotherapy only (21.4%), surgery only (19%). The global frequency of sexual disorders to all patients is 98.4% in medical oncology service. It is important to consider those sexual disorders at the time of the care of those patients according to their repercussion on life quality during and after all treatment even in the absence of all progressive nature of disease. The most sexual disorder found is the one of craving.
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abstract = {Considered as taboo, sexual difficulties and couple intimacy remain rarely tackled by patients and again less by the oncologist practicians. It might seem that faced with the vital stake of disease, this kind of worries seem to be frivolous, indeed shameful to be tackled. The current study had an objective to assess the impacts of cancer on male sexuality followed and treated in medical service in University Hospital of Brazzaville. Studying male sexual disorder of patients with cancer in medical oncology service in university hospital of Brazzaville. It was a retrospective study, from April 1st to July 31st 2018. All patients with cancer aged at least 18 years old with a performance of WHO between 0-2 were included. About one hundred (100) patients we examined whose eighty four (84) men, it appears that the most sexual disorder found is the one of craving, then the one of orgasm. Certain troubles had a link with the onset of cancer (p<5). The men presented a great number of sexual disorder had a cancer of digestive type (47.6%), urogenital (22.6%) and soft tissue (19%). In terms of received treatments: surgery-chemotherapy (men 22%), chemotherapy only (21.4%), surgery only (19%). The global frequency of sexual disorders to all patients is 98.4% in medical oncology service. It is important to consider those sexual disorders at the time of the care of those patients according to their repercussion on life quality during and after all treatment even in the absence of all progressive nature of disease. The most sexual disorder found is the one of craving.},
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