Exploring the role of the partner in couples' sexual recovery after surgery for prostate cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2509-2515

  Wittmann, Daniela ^a,b   Carolan, Marsha ^c   Given, Barbara ^c   Skolarus, Ted A ^a,d   An, Lawrence ^b   Palapattu, Ganesh ^a   Montie, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Couples; Partners; Prostate cancer; Prostatectomy; Sexual recovery; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; GRIEF; GROUNDED THEORY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INCOME; INTIMACY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MOURNING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERCEPTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; URINE INCONTINENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY SIZE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84906312672     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-014-2244-x     Document Type: Article

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