Body image and sexual dysfunctions: Comparison between breast cancer patients and healthy women

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 1493-1497

  Bakht, Sepideh ^a   Najafi, Somayeh ^b  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body image; Breast cancer; Sexual dysfunctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549231953     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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