The Sexual Impact of Cancer and Cancer Treatments in Men

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 555-580

  Bruner, Deborah Watkins ^a,b   Calvano, Tammy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; NEOPLASMS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 35748971056     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2007.07.005     Document Type: Review

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