Causes of sexual dysfunction in patients with bladder cancer

Many bladder cancer patients have varying degrees of sexual dysfunction, which seriously affects the lives of patients and their spouses. The main reasons are the following 6 points:

1. Lack of sexual knowledge. Bladder cancer patients are worried that sexual life will damage too much "original energy", which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease, and may even cause the disease to worsen or recur, so they avoid sexual life.

2. Some bladder cancer patients suffer from depression, which causes physical and mental fatigue and low libido.

3. Because bladder cancer occurs in private parts, patients develop an inferiority complex and refuse sexual intercourse.

4. The tumor affects the patient's endocrine level and reduces sexual desire.

5. Symptoms associated with late-stage tumors affect sexual life. Common associated symptoms include severe pain, bleeding, fever, etc., which particularly affect sexual life in the late stages.

6. Clinicians avoid talking about the sexual life of patients and do not discuss this issue after the completion of cancer treatment, which results in patients not resuming their sexual life in a timely manner after the completion of treatment.