Cancer and cancer treatment can affect your sexual well-being in multiple different ways.
You may have side effects from your cancer or treatment. You may also be affected by stress, worry, or other difficult feelings which may negatively impact your sex life.
Your routines, roles, sense of self and identity may also be affected.
Links / resources
- Sex and cancer – Macmillan Cancer Support
Information on possible changes to your sex life after cancer and what can help. - Resources about sex – Shine Cancer Support
Shine is a cancer support charity specifically for people who have cancer in their 20s, 30s or 40s. They provide resources and connect people with personal experiences. - Pleasure & Intimacy: A Guide for people living with cancer by fruitflycollective.com – Issuu
A guide for people living with cancer, specifically designed to help with pleasure and intimacy. - Untold Pleasure podcast – Cancer, Sex & Intimacy project – Listen Notes
This podcast aims to shine a light on the way cancer can have an impact on intimate and sexual pleasure through interviews with survivors and professionals.