Post-treatment sexual adjustment following cervical and endometrial cancer: A qualitative insight

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-279

  Juraskova, I ^a   Butow, P ^a   Robertson, R ^b   Sharpe, L ^a   McLeod, C ^c   Hacker, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMININITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; ROLE PLAYING; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SUPPORT GROUP; TAPE RECORDER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUALITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345352793     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.639     Document Type: Article

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