Commitment to Preserving the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients: the Example of "les RCSF - Rencontres annuelles cancer et fertilite" (An Annual Cancer Sexuality and Fertility Meeting)

The issue of sexual health is not yet fully integrated into the consultation process by practitioners and not significantly integrated by other stakeholders in the cancer care pathway. However, it is known and increasingly documented that these are issues of concern for patients and their partners, who consider, for the vast majority, that their sexual health and/or their parental plans are important issues. For more than 10 years now, a French language group of experts (GEX-Oncosexuality/oncofertility expert group of the Association francophone pour les soins oncologiques de support), composed of professionnals involved in oncology, reproductive or sexuality medicine (e.g., oncologists, psychologists, sexologist), leads different actions: awareness, training, and work on good practices allowing caregivers to feel legitimate to dialogue with their patients, to intervene with simple proposal of therapies, and to direct toward complementary resources and skills. It is in this context and with the same objectives that the interdisciplinary days titled "RCSF-Sexuality and Fertility Cancer Meetings" are organized each year in a different region in France or Switzerland.