Sex and cancer

How cancer can affect your sexuality and sex life

Cancer can affect your sexuality and sex life in a number of ways. Practical issues, confidence, emotions, and changes in your body can all have an impact.

Sex and cancer | Impact on your sex life and relationships

Cancer and treatment can affect your sex drive in different ways. You may not feel interested or ready to have sex for a time before, during or after treatment.

How Cancer Changes Your Sex Life—and What You Can Do About It

Cancer and its various treatments impact sexuality in profound ways. Treatment for gynecologic cancers, for example, can remove key reproductive organs or send ...

How Cancer and Cancer Treatment Can Affect Sexuality

A person's sex organs, sexual desire (sex drive or libido), sexual function, well-being, and body image can be affected by cancer and cancer treatment.

Sexual Intimacy During Cancer Treatment

Here are some common challenges and suggestions for supporting your partner and sharing sexual intimacy during cancer treatment.

Being intimate when your partner has cancer - Cancer Council Victoria

Be assured that it is not possible for your partner to transmit cancer through intimate activities such as kissing or intercourse. · Sexual activity will not ...

Chemo Side Effects: Sexuality and Cancer

Patients' sexuality can be affected by cancer treatment. Get information from the experts at MD Anderson about coping with sexuality problems during cancer ...

Sex and Your Cancer Treatment

You may experience side effects from cancer treatment that may make it harder for you to have sex, such as trouble getting or keeping an erection.

Sexual Health Issues in Women and Cancer Treatment - Side Effects

Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and radiation may cause sexual problems in women. Conditions may include vaginal ...

Cancer, Sex, and the Female Body

A person's sex organs, sexual desire (sex drive or libido), sexual function, well-being, and body image can be affected by having cancer and cancer treatment.

Common Sexual Health Problems and Who Can Help - CDC

Some cancer treatments cause changes in sex organs that can also affect your sex life. This can include not being able to get or keep an ...

Sexuality and intimacy - Cancer Council Victoria

Most people can have a fulfilling sex life after cancer, but it often takes time, and you may need to develop a new approach to sex. If you have to learn ...

Sex and cancer for partners

Many problems with sex after cancer will get better with time and a little patience. There is help available for you.

Sexuality & Cancer

How do you think my cancer treatment will change my sexual health or sex life? • Is it safe for me to have sex? (It is usually safe to have sex unless your ...

Chemotherapy and sex: Is sexual activity OK during treatment?

What type of cancer do you have? Cancers of the genital tract, urinary tract, anus or rectum may require special caution when it comes to sex. After a procedure ...

Sexual Health Issues in Men and Cancer Treatment - Side Effects

Chemotherapy, radiation therapy to the prostate, and surgery for testicular cancer or pelvic cancers may affect a man's sexual function and ...

Sex and Intimacy After Cancer Treatment - WebMD

It's normal for your sex life to slow down during cancer treatment. Once treatment is over, here's how to increase intimacy and feel good ...

Sexual Health After Cancer Treatment | City of Hope

Many cancer survivors experience physical and emotional changes after cancer treatment that may affect how they feel about their sexual health and intimate ...

Female Sexual Health After Cancer - Livestrong

Try to have a goal of enjoying sex and getting as much pleasure as possible. The nerves that help a woman feel pleasure around the clitoris and ...

Intimacy and sex - Cancer Care Ontario

Sex can be any type of touching or intimate activity that makes you and your partner feel good and connected. • Cancer and treatments will change your body. • ...