240. Sex After Cancer

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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240. Sex After Cancer What are possible sexual issues after cancer? What are treatment options? How can we do better talking about it? Thanks to our sponsor Uber Lube 10% off, Code NOTBROKEN uberlube.com Dr. Laila Agrawal is a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer in a community setting at Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, KY. She is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and has a sexual health clinic for women with cancer. How she went from oncology into sexual health after cancer? The importance of vaginal health after cancer treatment. Why does no one talk about breasts as sexual organs? How does this affect the breast cancer conversation? We discuss options. Things to know about sexual health after cancer diagnosis: It is biopsychosocial The role of body image in impacting sexual health The role of prevention of sexual dysfunction after radiation – vaginal dilators. The ACOG statement supporting the safety of vaginal estrogen after cancer. We discuss different vaginal estrogen products and vaginal DHEA. The role of testosterone when you are on aromatase inhibitor after breast cancer. Use of non hormonal FDA approved products for low sexual desire. Did you get my “You Are Not Broken” Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK Listen to my Tedx Talk: Why we need adult sex ed Join my NEW Adult Sex Ed Master Class: https://www.kellycaspersonmd.com/adult-sex-ed Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes. www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership https://www.instagram.com/drlailaagrawal/ @drlailaagrawal on X --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life.
0:11.4	And I'm your host, board-certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.
0:16.2	Hey friends, welcome back.
0:17.7	I'm so excited today to have Dr. Layla Agarwal on.
0:20.7	She is a medical oncologist
0:22.1	specializing in breast cancer in a community setting in louisville kentucky she's a fellow of the
0:27.3	international society for the study of women's sexual health that's ishwish and has a sexual
0:31.7	health clinic for women with cancer and you guys she is wicked smart and can keep up with all of my
0:36.5	questions we were talking offline before we hit a recording, and I'm already very impressed.
0:40.9	So thank you so much for joining me.
0:42.7	It is my absolute pleasure to be here.
0:45.2	So I'm so happy to be here to talk about sex after cancer.
0:48.6	I think this is such an important topic, and I'm excited.
0:52.6	Awesome.
0:53.1	I mean, I just hear over and over again about how my oncologist
0:56.4	never talked to me about cancer, how my oncologist said, just be grateful that you're cured,
1:00.8	like all of this stuff. And my question for you is like, how did you get into caring,
1:05.5	let alone starting a specialty clinic for sexual health for women with cancer? Tell me your story. How did you get on this podcast
1:12.6	today? Well, I'll tell you. I never thought that this was going to be something that I was doing.
1:18.7	It was not on my radar whatsoever. So I'm a medical oncologist and a hematologist, and my specialty
1:25.3	is I treat patients who have breast cancer. And so I'm busy in
1:29.4	my clinic. I'm seeing people with new diagnoses, follow-up, people who have metastatic cancer. And as part of the
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