The Meaning of Incontinence and Impotence for Low Income African-American and Latino Men with Prostate Cancer

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to describe the meaning of prostate cancer treatment-related incontinence and impotence for low income African American and Latino men. Preliminary common categories between the Latino and African American men included erectile dysfunction and incontinence were the price that had to be paid to cure cancer, trusting God as a means of coping, context of incontinence as determinant of its acceptability (e.g. if due to illness, acceptable; if due to drunkenness, not acceptable), and ambivalence toward role of erectile function in masculine identity and transitional masculinity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA465200

Entities

People

  • Mark S. Litwin
  • Sally L. Maliski

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • African Americans
  • Biomedical Research
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Information Operations
  • Neoplasms
  • Prostate
  • Prostate Cancer

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