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Enhancing Intimacy and Sexual Well-Being for Couples after Transplant and CAR T-cell Therapy

Summary: Patients and their partners may have difficulty with intimacy and sexual activity after transplant or CAR T-cell therapy. This presentation explores strategies for acknowledging and addressing these issues. Presenter: Catalina Lawsin PhD The Rebirth Collective https://theintimacydoc.com/ As presented at the 2025 Survivorship Symposium, May 3-May 9. Presentation is 38 minutes long with 20 minutes of Q & A To read the transcript, go to: https://bmtinfonet.org/video/enhancin... Highlights: (03:37) Couples often feel they cannot talk to each other about intimacy after cancer treatment. Changing from patient/caregiver back to wife/husband roles can be difficult. (07:13): Cancer survivors of both genders often lose sexual desire after transplant or CAR T-cell therapy and have a mismatched libido with their partners. (10:06) One thing that often happens is we pathologize the patient because they're the one who had cancer. They're the ones who are ‘broken’. When we pathologize one person in a relationship as the problem, we’re never going to get anywhere - all that's going to lead to is disconnection. (15:10) There is no right amount of sex to have. There's no, ‘Get 12 grams per day of semen.’ There's nothing like that. (16:34): Transplant survivors may not feel like the person they were before transplant, making intimacy difficult. (17:34): We know, from research that it’s not necessarily the ‘what’, it's the ‘how’. It's not what you're doing with your body; it is how you are experiencing the sensations. (24:37): There are several reasons why issues of sexual intimacy are rarely discussed with oncologists. (27:18): We know that sexual satisfaction is associated with frequency, but more often, sexual satisfaction is about the quality of connection, not the frequency. (30:35) Communication between partners is key. But it's very important to appreciate that the reason some people don't communicate is because they don't feel safe enough to do so (31:45): When people come for sex therapy, we don’t focus just on sex at the start. We start by building up the skills in the relationship, the trust, and the safety to begin having those more sensitive conversations. Key Points: Many transplant and CAR T-cell survivors experience physical and emotional changes that make sexual activity difficult, unappealing, or painful. They may no longer feel connected to their body or to sensations that provide pleasure Transplant and CAR T-cell survivors may feel experience guilt, resentment and frustration while trying to regain intimacy. Healthy communication is crucial to addressing difficulties with sexuality and intimacy but it’s also crucial for people to feel emotionally safe and connected with their partners to have that communication. VISIT US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:   / bmtinfonet     / bonemarrowstemcelltransplantclub     / bmtinfonet   https://x.com/BMTInfoNet   / bmt-infonet   https://bsky.app/profile/bmtinfonet.b...