Improving care for women after gynecological cancer: The development of a sexuality clinic

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1327-1333

  Barbera, Lisa ^a,b,c   Fitch, Margaret ^a   Adams, Lauran ^a   Doyle, Catherine ^a   Dasgupta, Tracey ^a   Blake, Jennifer ^d,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gynecological cancer; Menopause; Pilot; Sexuality; Specialty clinic; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFTERCARE; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY;

EID: 83055181222     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31821f598c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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