Boek: Breaking the silence on cancer and sexuality
Door kleodubois op Do, 16/05/2019 - 15:08
Cancer and its treatments have far reaching and long lasting impacts on quality of life and no more so than in the area of sexuality and sexual functioning. The successful treatment of cancer often leaves survivors with an enhanced appreciation of life and the love they have in their lives. To be faced with difficulties in how love is expressed through the most intimate of acts is devastating for many couples after treatment. For those who are not partnered, treatment side effects pose additional challenges in the realm of dating and establishing new relationships when body image is altered.
In the past ten years since the first edition of this text was published, oncology care providers are increasingly interested in and asking about changes to sexuality in their patients. The field has moved from an overwhelming silence to discussions that are much more open. Both survivors and their partner have benefited from this. But so too have oncology care providers who are increasingly providing comprehensive care for their patients, especially in this most sensitive aspect of quality of life.
This second edition of the award-winning and practice changing text includes updated evidence and models that address the assessment and management of cancer related sexual problems for survivors of all ages with a broad variety of cancers.