Sexuality of Women With Pelvic Cancer (FECAPSE)

University Hospital of Bordeaux

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pelvic Cancer; Sexual Behavior

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04070950

CHUBX 2008/39

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to study in patients with cancer of the cervix or the body of the uterus, or the ovary between the time of diagnosis and 3 months after the end of the last treatment: the evolution of the relationship of couple, and more particularly of communication (verbal and non-verbal) concerning sexuality, before and during cancer.

Full description

The representations associated with sexuality and cancer seem antinomic: wellbeing / death, and yet combine in the experience of cancer. The latter has an impact on sexuality in terms of satisfaction or sexual activity and on the relationship in terms of support.

In addition, various studies show the psychological impact of treatments on the couple's relationship or the body image of women with cancer. Their abilities to seduce are affected and explain the decrease of their sexual activity during the treatments: a communication, valuing the femininity, would it then facilitate the relations of couple? There is no work that considers sexuality in a systematic way (sexual act and verbal and non-verbal communication) and apprehends its link with the evolution of the relationship, from the diagnosis of cancer to the end of treatments.

This study aims to study in patients with cancer of the cervix or the body of the uterus, or the ovary between the time of diagnosis and 3 months after the end of the last treatment: the evolution of the relationship of couple, and more particularly of communication (verbal and non-verbal) concerning sexuality, before and during cancer.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Life in a couple or single with a regular partner for at least 3 months
• Cancer of the cervix or uterine body or ovarian cancer, in first diagnosis and treatment
• Whatever the stage of cancer
• Curative treatment
• Support in one of the participating centers
• Possible follow-up of all stages of the research

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of metastases
• History of other cancer
• History of severe psychiatric illness

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

Single group

Description:

Interview of patients with cancer of the cervix or uterine body, or ovary between the time of diagnosis and 3 months after the end of their last cancer treatment (not the object of the study).

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires