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Doctors: prostate radiation therapy won't affect sex drive

Categories: Men's Health

If you have prostate cancer or are beginning treatment for it, new research out this week concluded that those high-dose precision radiation therapies won't interfere with your sex drive or function.

The research looked at 155 men with varying levels of prostate cancer and found that precisely-targeted radiation therapy for those tumors made it possible to not affect nearby tissue. Hence, normal sexual function was affected very little in each procedure.

Targeted medicine and procedures are a holy grail for many medical scientists since diseases can be managed without messing with any other part of the body. In this case, that's an important part most men would rather not have interrupted.

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