Patients may often require GP prompts on impotence

By Catherine Reilly. Prostate cancer patients often require frequent prompts from GPs to feel comfortable in disclosing concerns about treatment implications, such as potential incontinence and impotence issues, a clinical psychologist has said. Louise Kinsella at the Department of Psycho-oncology in St Vincent’s University Hospital, speaking in advance of the Men Against Cancer (MAC) annual 5k fundraising walk, which was due to take place at the conclusion of Men’s Health Week on June 16, said it was especially important that GPs kept the “lines of communication open” regarding the psychological effects of the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. “It…