Psychosocial perspectives on sexual recovery after prostate cancer treatment

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 167-176

  Walker, Lauren M ^a   Wassersug, Richard J ^b   Robinson, John W ^a  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; TADALAFIL;

ADAPTATION; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; COITUS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMOTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPECTATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MASSAGE; MASTURBATION; MOTIVATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT WORRY; PENILE BLOOD FLOW; PENIS ERECTION; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX THERAPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL PRACTICE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGICAL PROSTHESIS AND IMPLANT; VACUUM ERECTION DEVICE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONVALESCENCE; LIBIDO; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84924407573     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2015.29     Document Type: Review

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