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This area is important and relevant to the NHS for a number of reasons. There is an increasing number of prostate cancer survivors within around the world. A service with a high level of patient care, focused on psychosexual concerns, side effects of therapy whilst clinically safe and based on patient need should be provided. Current follow-up systems for this cohort have a significant financial burden associated. There are significant issues with erectile dysfunction and side effects of therapy. There is a lack of available guidance for this cohort of survivors. Current follow-up programmes in the NHS are not meeting patient needs. The implications for the uro-oncology community are: development of guidelines for Psychosexual Survivorship Care, applicable nationally and internationally.
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This area is important and relevant to the NHS for a number of reasons. There is an increasing number of prostate cancer survivors within around the world. A service with a high level of patient care, focused on psychosexual concerns, side effects of therapy whilst clinically safe and based on patient need should be provided. Current follow-up systems for this cohort have a significant financial burden associated. There are significant issues with erectile dysfunction and side effects of therapy. There is a lack of available guidance for this cohort of survivors. Current follow-up programmes in the NHS are not meeting patient needs. The implications for the uro-oncology community are: development of guidelines for Psychosexual Survivorship Care, applicable nationally and internationally.
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Goonewardene, S.S., Persad, R. (2018). Impact on Uro-oncology. In: Prostate Cancer Survivorship . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65358-7_69
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