ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Breast Tumour: what affects the sexuality of the woman and the couple? How disruptive can it be for women, femininity and eroticism, fertility and the possibility of having a child? Why after the diagnosis of cancer separates 25% of couples (AIOM, 2024), if it is her who has cancer, and only 3-7% if the tumor affects him? 924,500 Italian women, who have well exceeded breast cancer, paid in solitude a very high price right on the front of intimacy and sexual pleasure. Medical and surgical oncology have made extraordinary progress, with a further 20% increase in survival over the last 8 years. Unfortunately, however, sexuality, woman and couple, after breast cancer, remains a taboo. It is urgent and priority to overcome it. For this reason Professor Alessandra Graziottin, gynaecologist and oncologist, with solid experience in medical sexology, dedicates a structured series of videos of Focus Health, Italpress format, to deepen the physical and emotional reasons why breast cancer can affect the sexuality of women and couples to the heart.
For the tumor itself, which affects the prince organ of femininity; for surgery, which can reduce the eroticism of areola and nipple, essential for excitation in more than 80% of women, even more after mastectomy; for the effects of skin and nervous injuries from radiotherapy; for long-term damage from chemotherapy and adjuvant therapies, which together can eliminate desire and excitement, cause vaginal dryness, pain in relationships and cystitis, and appease orgasm. The goal is to suggest effective multimodal strategies, based on scientific evidence and clinical experience, to prevent and cure the impact of breast cancer on sexuality, and to foster a constructive conversation between women and different health professionals in oncology, so that a brighter sexuality is the flagship of oncological therapies that save life.
– photos taken from video Focus Health –
(ITALPRESS).
