Cancer survivorship can change everything, including your sex life. In this episode of What I Wish I Knew, McKenna Avery sits down with a sexual medicine specialist to talk through the most common sexual health challenges after cancer treatment, from low libido and reduced sensation to vaginal dryness, painful sex, and orgasm changes.

You’ll also hear what comprehensive, trauma-aware sexual health care can look like, including longer, more thorough visits that combine therapy, education, diagnostic testing, and careful monitoring. The conversation explores menopause after cancer treatment, the fear and hesitation around hormones in breast cancer survivorship, and why patient advocacy matters when quality of life is on the line.

This episode is for cancer patients, survivors, partners, caregivers, and clinicians who want a clearer, more compassionate understanding of sexual dysfunction after cancer, and what it can mean to pursue safe, monitored support rather than suffering in silence.

If this conversation helped you feel more informed or less alone, please like, subscribe, and leave a comment with what resonated or what you wish more people understood about sex and intimacy after cancer. Share this episode with someone who might need it, whether that’s a patient, survivor, partner, caregiver, or clinician. Follow us on Instagram @WIWIKPOD.