Stay in the Game

Dr. Stacy Loeb, a lead on a team of researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, presents findings from a recently published study on women's sexual health and quality of life when their partner is on the prostate cancer journey. The study uncovered key challenges faced by patients' wives and female partners. Dr. Loeb explains the evaluative survey developed to help patients and their partners identify sex life issues and determine the best ways to address these problems. Program Notes Find a sex educator or sex therapist: https://www.aasect.org/referral-directory Find a sexual medicine specialist: https://app.v1.statusplus.net/membership/provider/index?society=smsna Link to questionnaire on the PCF website: https://www.pcf.org/sexual-health-changes/impact-of-prostate-cancer-on-partners-sexual-quality-of-life/

Dr. Allison Applebaum discusses the timely topic of care partnering with a loved one experiencing chronic illness, such as prostate cancer in this National Family Caregivers Month episode. She presents key aspects of successful and balanced caregiving from her recently published book Stand By Me: Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving, and touches on the unique challenges faced by care partners of patients on the prostate cancer journey.

Negative side effects of prostate cancer treatment can leave men facing the physical and emotional challenges of erectile dysfunction. Yet, prostate cancer patients do not have to resign themselves to permanent erectile dysfunction or the complete loss of sexual function as a side effect of their treatment. Urologist and men's sexual health specialist, Dr. Amy Pearlman believes "every man can be helped to regain control of their sexual health" through individualized therapy regimens. Over the course of the conversation, Dr. Pearlman outlines a number of treatment options and methodologies to help address sexual dysfunction.

For many of us, our urologists arrived in our lives at a time of crisis and have confined their care to managing our prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. But in an engaging conversation with host Ed Randall, Dr. Michael Volpe walks us through the gamut of urinary and reproductive organ conditions a urologist might encounter in a clinical practice. Dr. Volpe also suggests that as we age, we might want to consider adding a urologist to our medical team.   Dr. Volpe also shared stories about meeting his wife Isabelle in medical school in 1990 and bonding over their mutual love of catching the #4 train to take in Yankees games from their regular seats in the bleachers. And, of course, there is the surreal (and joyful) experience thirty-four years later of his son Anthony playing shortstop for his parents' favorite team.