2024-10-01 12:09:41
The GECP study ‘Lúdicas’ shows the importance of considering the results of therapies on health and quality of life.
Inter-American Research Sportsman of the Spanish Lung Cancer Association (GECP), dedicated to independent clinical research, shows that the increase in survival among people, men and women, with this disease forces us to consider the the side effect of oncological treatments on health (cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, etc.) and on relevant aspects of quality of life, such as sex.
The study, presented a few days ago at the annual conference (WCLC24) of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) held in San Diego, California, indicates that 63.3% of lung cancer patients admit problems including their sexual health. after starting treatment.
Aylen Vanessa Ospina, oncologist at the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital in Madrid, member of the GECP and principal investigator of Sportsmanwho attended the annual conference of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), which took place this month in Barcelona, active, from 24 Spanish, Portuguese, Argentinian and Colombian hospitals.
In addition to the high prevalence of sexual dysfunction among patients with lung cancer after starting oncological treatment, it has also been shown a significant sexual and gender bias in the presentation of this disorder, with women being the most affected.
“Additional screening and support for sexual dysfunction needs to be implemented in female lung cancer patients. We must note that, although in previous decades it has been a neoplasm more among men, currently there is an increase in the incidence among the female sex, “said Ospina.
Him SportsmanIn fact, it is a project that emerged from another study, the Explainwhich shows that 76% of women with cancer make changes in their sexual activity.
Other relevant information about Sportsman is that 88.8% of patients who participated in the study considered the assessment of sexual dysfunction during treatment to be very important to improve their quality of life.
This is evidence that, in Ospina’s opinion, forces oncologists, on the one hand, to ask patients about this issue; and, on the other hand, to refer them to several professional groups that can try to give them a comprehensive solution (psychological, sexological, gynecological, urological, etc.).
An unknown problem
In his opinion, sexual dysfunction is neglected and neglected by health professionals; However, “88.3% of the patients in the study noted that it is important in maintaining their quality of life,” he said.
In addition, 10% of the people in the study realized some improvement in their sexual function after finishing the cancer treatment, however, 63% of the patients could not stop because of the advanced stage of the disease.
“The patient who is being treated for lung cancer and their partner do not know that their sexuality can be affected, that they can tell what is happening to them and that there can be treatment once the disease has stopped, and all this is must tell them. ” Ospina defended. Carmen Fernández (DM)
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