RT Book, Section
A1 Hughes, Mary K.
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125785456
T1 Sexuality and Cancer
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125785456
RD 2024/04/23
AB While  living  with  cancer,  a  person  experiences  numerous  assaults  on  his  or  her  quality  of  life.  One  of  these  is  to  a  person's  sexuality.  It  is  important  to  remember  that  the  sexual  dysfunction  is  not  limited  to  treatment  changes  in  organs  associated  with  sexual  response.1  Treatments  and/or  the  disease  itself  can  cause  changes  in  sexuality,  but  health  care  providers  rarely  ask  about  sexuality  issues  because  of  concepts  about  the  importance  of  sexuality  in  the  context  of  the  disease.2  This  causes  patients  to  think  they  are  the  only  ones  with  sexuality  issues  since  they  are  asked  about  other  intimate  issues  such  as  bowel  and  bladder  habits,  but  not  sexuality  issues.