Research team: Breast-conservation therapy aids intimacy

PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island Surgeon-in-Chief Dr. Jennifer Gass and a research team she led recently presented research showing that breast cancer patients undergoing breast conservation therapy rather than mastectomy have greater pleasure during intimacy.

Gass and her team’s findings were presented at the annual meetings of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Health and the Society of Surgical Oncology.

“What we found was that women who were treated with breast conservation therapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer reported a higher rate of pleasurable caressing of the treated breast during sex and intimate moments,” Gass said.

Gass added that women who underwent mastectomy and reconstruction were less than half as likely to experience such pleasure.

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