Any medical condition that negatively influences the male reproductive system usually leads to disrupted functioning of the sex organs and other emotional, psychological, and physical changes in the patient, thereby weakening his sexual performance to a great extent. Testicular cancer, one such chronic disease known to directly impact the sexual activity of a person by causing severe erectile dysfunction, has become very common nowadays.
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Both, testicular cancer and ED (erectile dysfunction) are strongly correlated with each other. Men diagnosed to have tumors or malignancies in their testicles almost invariably suffer from loss of penile erection.
Testicular cancer usually leads to psychogenic erectile dysfunction (PED), wherein the patient experiences anxiety, depression, and fear after being diagnosed with cancer and consequently loses interest in sexual activity. This leads to a hormone imbalance in his body, resulting in failure to initiate or maintain erection of the penis on being stimulated sexually. This condition gets worsened further due to chemotherapy, a treatment involving extensive use of chemicals to wipe out cancer cells. The cancer medications usually have many side effects, like muscular weakness, reduced libido, and extreme depression, which contribute to the development of ED.
Some patients with testicular cancer are also put through radiation therapy that involves extensive use of radiations to eliminate cancerous cells. However, radiotherapy also tends to damage the healthy veins, arteries, and nerves associated with the penis, resulting in severe forms of arteriogenic, venogenic, and/or neurogenic ED. Radiations might also affect the normal hormonal balance of sex hormones, thereby making the condition even worse. In patients who are put through orchiectomy, a surgical procedure involving removal of patient’s testes to treat cancer of testicles, lose capability of penile erection permanently. This happens as testes are the main organs that produce testosterone, a hormone that facilitates penile erection during intercourse.
Thus, testicular cancer and erectile dysfunction of all kinds are clearly connected. However, it is the cancer treatment and not the testicular tumor that actually causes loss of penile erection in the patient.
Erectile dysfunction (ED), an extremely depressing sexual problem in males, has been commonly diagnosed in men across the globe. The saddest part of it is that majority of the men suffering from the problem are reluctant to consult a doctor for treatment of ED to avoid embarrassment. More..
Erectile Dysfunction And Testicular Cancer
