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    Session Type: Symposium

    International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Symposium: Clinical Guidelines for Sexual Health and Prostate Cancer

    Friday, October 31, 2025
    10:30 - 12:00 GMT+0

      Chair(s)

    • Michael Kirby

      Urologist
      The Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC), United Kingdom

    Key Takeaways



    • Prostate cancer has significant negative sexual and psychological effects on patients and their partners, and their relationships – these can be mitigated with enthusiastic and effective rehabilitation.

    • Rehabilitation is most successful when provided from a biological as well as psychosexual perspective.

    • Providers have a responsibility to educate patients and partners about the sexual side-effects of prostate cancer treatment and direct them to physical as well as psychological/couple rehabilitation resources.

    Learning Objectives :

    At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
    • Prostate cancer has significant negative sexual and psychological effects on patients and their partners, and their relationships – these can be mitigated with rehabilitation.
    • Rehabilitation is most successful when provided from a biological as well as psychosexual perspective.
    • Providers have a responsibility to educate patients and partners about the sexual side-effects of prostate cancer treatment and direct them to physical as well as psychological/couple rehabilitation resources.

    Presentations:

    • 10:30 - 10:35 GMT+0
      Introduction

      Chair: Michael Kirby – The Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC)

    • 10:35 - 10:45 GMT+0
      Scope of Statements

      Speaker: Michael Kirby – The Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC)

    • 10:40 - 10:50 GMT+0
      Case presentation highlighting statement 1 and illustrating the physical impacts and rehabilitation and also addressing the importance of pre-treatment education from a psychosocial/sexual point of view and sex therapy/couple rehabilitation

      Speaker: Michael Kirby – The Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC)

      Speaker: Isabel D. White – The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London

    • 11:05 - 11:20 GMT+0
      Special Issues in Prostate cancer – Hormone Supplementation (focus) and Fertility Preservation
    • 11:20 - 11:30 GMT+0
      ISSM-Movember Collaboration on Dissemination and Implementation

      Speaker: Run Wang – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA

    • 11:30 - 12:00 GMT+0
      Discussion With the Audience