| Description |
xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Sex, Cancer, and Your Emotions -- 2. Am I Normal? Men's Sexual Health -- 3. Greater Expectations: Women's Sexual Health -- 4. Getting the Words Out: Talking about Sex -- 5. Going Back to Bed -- 6. Safer Sex after Cancer: Preventing Disease and Unwanted Pregnancy -- 7. Getting the Help You Need for a Sexual Problem -- 8. Where Did My Libido Go? -- 9. Enhancing Sexual Desire after Cancer -- 10. Causes of Erection Problems -- 11. How to Mend a Broken Part: Restoring Erections -- 12. The Bells Aren't Ringing: No Orgasms, Slow Orgasms, and Dry Orgasms -- 13. Causes of Painful Sex -- 14. Overcoming Pain during Sex -- 15. Empty Arms: The Pain of Infertility -- 16. Maybe a Baby? Researching Your Options -- 17. Sperm Manufacture: When Cancer Treatment Shuts Down the Line -- 18. Special Delivery: Getting the Sperm to the Egg -- 19. Women's Fertility: A Nonrenewable Resource -- 20. Pregnancy and Cancer: What Are the Risks? -- 21. Postcancer Kids: Are They Healthy? |
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22. Having Whose Baby? Third-Party Reproduction -- 23. Myths about Sex, Women's Health, and Breast Cancer -- 24. It's Not Prostrate Cancer -- 25. Sex with a Part Missing -- 26. Survivors of Childhood Cancer -- 27. Gay and Lesbian Cancer Survivors -- 28. Sex and the Single Survivor |
| Summary |
Explains how cancer interferes with sexuality both emotionally and physically, cover special topics such as sex after breast or prostate cancer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Complications.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Sexual behavior.
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Cancer -- Surgery -- Complications.
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Fertility.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Neoplasms -- psychology.
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Sexual Behavior -- psychology.
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Attitude to Health.
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Infertility.
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Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological.
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Attitude to Health.
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Infertility.
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Neoplasms -- psychology.
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Sexual Behavior -- psychology.
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Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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| LC no. |
97009932 |
| ISBN |
0471181943 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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