Assessment of sexual function in patients with cancer undergoing radiotherapy - A single centre prospective study

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 657-664

  Vomvas, Dimitrios ^a   Iconomou, Gregoris ^a   Soubasi, Evanthia ^a   Leotsinidis, Michail ^a   Kalofonos, Haralabos P ^a   Beratis, Stavroula ^a   Kardamakis, Dimitrios ^a   Assimakopoulos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression; Radiotherapy; Sexual function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856862428     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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