The Assessment and Management of Sexual Difficulties after Treatment of Cervical and Endometrial Malignancies

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 488-496

  White, I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; clinical assessment; endometrial cancer; female sexual dysfunction; management

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ESTROGEN; LUBRICATING AGENT; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGASM DISORDER; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; REHABILITATION CARE; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINA STENOSIS; VAGINISM;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 46149093201     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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