Sexual function after external-beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer: What do we know?

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-173

  Incrocci, Luca ^a,b,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Newsbulletin   (Netherlands)

^c International Society for Sexuality and Cancer (ISSC)   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erectile (dys)function; Prostate cancer; Radiation; Radiotherapy; Sexual (dys)function

Indexed keywords

PAPAVERINE; PHENTOLAMINE; SILDENAFIL;

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; PENIS ERECTION; POTENCY DISORDER; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 31344475025     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2005.06.006     Document Type: Review

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