Sexual dysfunction presents a major challenge to physicians who take on the task of treating men with prostate cancer. While curing the disease and saving a life is paramount, improving technologies and therapies now offer skilled surgeons and clinical oncologists the opportunity to eradicate the disease without compromising sexual function. In Sexual Function of the Prostate Cancer Patient, John Mulhall and a panel of internationally recognized experts on prostate cancer and sexual function assess in detail the current state of prostate cancer treatment. The authors offer a broad overview of the pathophysiology and treatment of erectile dysfunction in men with prostate cancer, reviewing the latest findings regarding erection-sparing radiation therapy and sexual function outcomes after laparascopic and robotic prostatectomy. Additional chapters discuss intra-operative maneuvers to minimize post-operative erectile dysfunction and pharmacologic penile preservation and rehabilitation. Timely and authoritative, Sexual Function in the Prostate Cancer Patient is a highly readable guide to preserving post-prostate cancer sexual function that no urologist or radiation and medical oncologist should be without.

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Sexual Dysfunction After Radical Prostatectomy.- The Impact of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Post-treatment Sexual Dysfunction on Quality of Life.- Pathophysiology of Erectile Dysfunction Following Radical Prostatectomy.- Pathophysiology of Erectile Dysfunction Following Radiation Therapy.- Evolution of Radical Prostatectomy as It Pertains to Nerve-Sparing.- Laparoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: Sexual Function Outcome.- Potency-Sparing Radiation: Myth or Reality?.- Neuromodulatory Drugs for the Radical Prostatectomy Patient.- Nerve Grafting at Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: Rationale, Technique, and Results.- Erectile Function Preservation and Rehabilitation.- Impact of Androgen Deprivation on Male Sexual Function.- The Utility of PDE5 Inhibitors After Radical Prostatectomy.- Injectable Therapies After Prostate Cancer Therapy.- Non-pharmacologic Erectile Dysfunction Treatments After Prostate Cancer Therapy.- Androgen Supplementation in the Prostate Cancer Patient.- Future Therapies Applicable to Post-radical Pelvic Surgery Patients.