Intimacy and sexuality after cancer: A critical review of the literature

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Hordern, Amanda ^a,b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alarm communication model; Better model; Cancer; Intimacy; Literature review; Model; Palliative care; Plissit communication; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRACEPTION; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENOPAUSE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 44449102723     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305695.12873.d5     Document Type: Review

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