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Patients with psychosexual concerns will never have tried medications or devices to improve their erections [1]. This is more common after brachytherapy or radiotherapy than after radical prostatectomy. This indicates a need for further research and management within this cohort [2].
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Goonewardene, S.S., Persad, R. (2018). Psychosexual Impairment and Adjuvant Therapy. In: Prostate Cancer Survivorship . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65358-7_101
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