Coping with sexual concerns after cancer

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 313-321

  Reese, Jennifer Barsky ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; coping; sexual function; sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REHABILITATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DILATATION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EROTISM; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDLINE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SPOUSE; TESTIS CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958778148     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0b013e3283446416     Document Type: Review

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