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Men With Cancer May Have Fertility Options

When a man has cancer, he may wonder how his illness and treatment might affect his ability to father a child in the future. The good news is that there is hope.

Our latest blog post discusses how, exactly, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery can impact sperm production. It also covers some of the fertility options available to men with cancer, such as sperm banking, electroejaculation, and adoption.

Please click here to learn more.

Online Therapy Helpful for Breast Cancer Survivors

Women who survive breast cancer might benefit from online sex therapy, suggests a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Such therapy could help women cope with some of the sexual problems that can occur after treatment, such as poor vaginal lubrication, low desire, and painful intercourse.

The study involved 169 women. Roughly half received weekly online counseling sessions with a trained therapist. The rest were put on a waiting list for therapy and received informational booklets about sexuality after cancer treatment.

What did the researchers discover? Most of the women in the therapy group reported better sexual function.

Further details about the study, along with links with more information about breast cancer and sexual health, are available here.

Condom Use is Low in the United States

Only 25% of people polled in a recent survey used a condom during their last sexual encounter.

The findings were published last month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The respondents included over 24,000 men and women between the ages of 18 and 44 who had had vaginal or anal sex during the previous year.

Single people were more likely to have used a condom - 51% of the men and 37% of the women in this group said that they did.

For those who engaged in risky sexual behaviors, like having multiple partners, the condom use rate was 34%.

Condoms can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy.

However, the authors recommended that healthcare providers counsel their patients the importance of condom use, especially if they have anal sex.

What else did the survey reveal? Find out here.

And if you'd like to learn more about using condoms correctly, please click here.

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