Cervical cancer: Issues of sexuality and fertility

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1229-1234

  Carter, Jeanne ^a   Auchincloss, Sarah ^b   Sonoda, Yukio ^c   Krychman, Michael ^d  

^a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*

^c Gynecologic Service

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALITY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1542577508     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: 08909091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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