Issues of intimacy and sexuality in the face of cancer: The patient perspective

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Hordern, Amanda ^a,c   Street, Annette ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication; Intimacy; Palliative care; Qualitative research; Reflexive inquiry; Reflexivity; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTESTINE CANCER; INTIMACY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALITY; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 36349003555     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000300162.13639.f5     Document Type: Article

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