How to evaluate sexual health in cancer patients: Development of the EORTC sexual health questionnaire for cancer patients

Translational Andrology and Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-102

  Nagele, Eva ^a   Den Oudsten, Brenda ^b   Greimel, Elfriede ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) sexual health questionnaire; Sexual health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84928957981     PISSN: 22234683     EISSN: 22234691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4683.2014.11.08     Document Type: Article

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