[Cancer and sexual medicine: a hand to the human]

Cancer itself and its treatments can result in physical and/or psychological adverse events which include disorders of sexual health. Both clinicians and patients are reluctant to talk about sexual issues, body image or intimacy between partners. Barriers from the clinician's perspective include feeling inadequately trained, lack of time or privacy. On the patients' side, embarrassment or belief that their sexual health are an untreatable complication of their disease and its treatment are the main barriers. Concerned by this problematic, a multidisciplinary group was created to address the question of sexual health in cancer patients and to set up a specialized training for the clinicians, with the overall goal to integrate this field in the standard management of cancer patients.