Sexual desire of French representative prostate cancer survivors 2 years after diagnosis (the VICAN survey)

Magali Girodet , Anne-Déborah Bouhnik (1) , Julien Mancini (1) , Patrick Peretti-Watel (2, 3) , Marc-Karim Bendiane (3) , Isabelle Ray-Coquard (4) , Marie Preau (5)

1 SESSTIM - U1252 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - UMR 259 IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale
2 VITROME - Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes
3 ORS PACA - Observatoire régional de la santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [Marseille]
4 Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]
5 GRePS - Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie Sociale

The prostate cancer impacts on the future life of survivors. The complexity of sexual health problems in prostate cancer survivors is underestimated or often reduced to the erectile dysfunction. Especially, factors influencing sexual desire of patients have to be more explored. This study aims to describe the therapeutic management of patients with prostate cancer and assess their sexual desire 2 years after diagnosis.

Mots clés: Cancer; Desire; Prostate; Quality of life; Sexuality; Survivors

Domaines: Bactériologie; Virologie; Parasitologie; Cardiologie et système cardiovasculaire; Maladies émergentes; Maladies infectieuses

Magali Girodet, Anne-Déborah Bouhnik, Julien Mancini, Patrick Peretti-Watel, Marc-Karim Bendiane, et al.. Sexual desire of French representative prostate cancer survivors 2 years after diagnosis (the VICAN survey). Supportive Care in Cancer, 2019, 27 (7), pp.2517-2524. ⟨10.1007/s00520-018-4536-z⟩. ⟨hal-02481753⟩