Psychosocial issues, sexuality, and cancer

Sexuality and Disability

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-318

  Tan, Gabriel ^a   Waldman, Karen ^b   Bostick, Rose ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Psychological; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEAR; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; INTIMACY; LIFESTYLE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RELIGION; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TESTIS CANCER; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0038708598     PISSN: 01461044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021661614318     Document Type: Review

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