The primary health care physician and the cancer patient: Tips and strategies for managing sexual health

Translational Andrology and Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 218-231

  Zhou, Eric S ^a   Nekhlyudov, Larissa ^a,b   Bober, Sharon L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral health; Cancer survivors; Primary care; Quality of life; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; TESTIS CANCER; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINAL DILATOR; VAGINAL DRYNESS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 84928944547     PISSN: 22234683     EISSN: 22234691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4683.2014.11.07     Document Type: Review

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