ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2021
The Oncology and Sexuality, Intimacy, and Survivorship Program Model: An Integrated, Multi-disciplinary Model of Sexual Health Care within Oncology.
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- Quality of Nursing Care: Addressing Sexuality as Part of Prostate Cancer Management, an Umbrella Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Pooled it
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- Multidisciplinary Approach to Sexual Dysfunction in Persons With Lung Cancer-Spanish Lung Cancer Group Expert Consensus Statement.JTO clinical and research reports · 2026Article
- Canadian healthcare provider perspectives and practices in the provision of sexual health support for people with chronic kidney disease: a mixed methods study.BMC nephrology · 2026Article
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- Charting paths to sexual well-being: a comprehensive research agenda for fostering sexual health in Europe and beyond.International journal of impotence research · 2026Review
- State of the science of sexual health among older cancer survivors: an integrative review.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Review
- Pre-Implementation Assessment of a Sexual Health eClinic in Canadian Oncology Care.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Sexual dysfunction in patients with cancer, a challenge in oncology practice: results of the CLARIFY project.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Observational
- Overview of sexual dysfunction in patients with cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023Review
- A qualitative study of sexual health and function of females with pelvic cancer.Sexual medicine · 2023Article
- Perspectives of health care providers referring patients to a newly implemented sexual health program in a Canadian cancer center.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of a multidisciplinary oncology sexual health clinic in a Canadian cancer care setting.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2021Article
- Response: Author reply.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cancer-related sexual dysfunction is documented as one of the most distressing and long-lasting survivorship concerns of cancer patients. Canadian cancer patients routinely report sexuality concerns and difficulty getting help. In response to this gap in care, clinical practice guidelines were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. A sweeping trend is the creation of specialized clinics for patients' sexual health concerns. However, this much-needed attempt to address this service gap can be difficult to sustain without addressing the cancer care system from a broader perspective. Herein, we describe the implementation of a tiered systemic model of cancer-related sexual health programming in a tertiary cancer center. This program follows the Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, Intensive Therapy (PLISSIT) model, used previously for guiding individual practitioners. Visually, the model resembles a pyramid. The top 2 levels, corresponding to Intensive Therapy and Specific Suggestions, are comprised of group-based interventions for common cancer-related sexual concerns and a multi-disciplinary clinic for patients with complex concerns. The bottom 2 levels, corresponding to Permission and Limited Information, consist of patient education and provider education and consultation services. We describe lessons learned during the development and implementation of this program, including the necessity for group-based services to prevent inundation of referrals to the specialized clinic, and the observation that creating specialized resources also increased the likelihood that providers would inquire about patients' sexual concerns. Such lessons suggest that successful sexual health programming requires services from a systemic approach to increase sustainability.
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