Sexual intimacy in heterosexual couples after prostate cancer treatment: What we know and what we still need to learn

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-143

  Beck, Andrea M ^a   Robinson, John W ^a,b   Carlson, Linda E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Sexual intimacy; Sexuality; Side effects

Indexed keywords

SILDENAFIL;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL STRESS; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES;

EID: 61649115194     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2007.11.032     Document Type: Review

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