Sexuality and cancer: The final frontier for nurses

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hughes, Mary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77949313825     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.E241-E246     Document Type: Article

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