LibGuides: Sexuality and Fertility Recommended Resources: Sexuality and Cancer

Use this guide to learn more about sexuality, fertility and cancer, including options before and after treatment.

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For Cancer Patients

How Cancer Can Affect Sex and Intimacy
This resource offers general information about how to learn, manage, and adapt to changes to your sex organs, sexual drive and function, or body image caused by cancer treatment.
Intimacy and Cancer (CancerCare)
This fact sheet can help you understand the physical changes that can occur during and after treatment and how to talk to your doctor and partner about the impact on your sexual health.
How Cancer Affects Your Self-Image and Sexuality (National Cancer Institute)
Cancer and its treatment can change how you look and feel about yourself. This guide discusses body changes and tips on how to cope with them.

MD Anderson Resources

Preserving fertility should be one of the first things you talk about with your doctor. Reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist Laurie McKenzie, M.D., explains why and what questions patients should ask.

Sexuality & Cancer: A Guide for Patients and Their Partners by MD Anderson Cancer Center
This guide provides information on the possible effects cancer may have on a patient's sex life. This guide covers topics such as physical and emotional effects of treatment, relationship changes, and fertility.

Keeping Intimacy Alive: Advice for Cancer Patients (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
This Cancerwise blog article outlines common concerns about sexual intimacy during cancer treatment and offers advice on addressing these concerns.
Coping with Cancer-Related Sexual Challenges with Your Partner (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
This article discusses challenges a patient may face with sexual changes, how to communicate with your partner about these changes, and how to find novel and safe ways to express your sexuality.
Why MD Anderson
Learn why MD Anderson is your best choice for cancer care.