The Preoperative Sexual Functioning and Quality of Sexual Life in Colorectal Cancer: A Study among Patients and Their Partners

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3247-3254

  Traa, Marjan Johanna ^a   De Vries, Jolanda ^a,b   Roukema, Jan Anne ^a,b   Den Oudsten, Brenda Leontine ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer treatment; Colorectal cancer; Preoperative assessment; Quality of sexual life; Sexual dysfunction; Sexual functioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORGASMIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF SEXUAL LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; VAGINAL LUBRICATION; VAGINISM;

EID: 84870612402     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02938.x     Document Type: Article

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