Sex and Cancer: Intimacy, Romance and Love after Diagnosis and Treatment

✍ Scribed by Saketh R. Guntapalli; Maryann Karinch

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 204 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 144227509X

✦ Synopsis

An intimate partnership has physical and psychological components, both of which often take a hit when cancer enters the union. The prospect, and then the process, of treatments tend to alter the way the two people relate to each other. When the diagnosis is one of gynecologic or reproductive cancer for a woman, questions of sexual intimacy and function often color relationships, confuse partners, and raise concerns that other cancers might not.
With an estimated 83,000 women a year added to the roles of those battling gynecologic cancers and 300,000 women a year added to roles of those battling breast cancer, Sex and Cancer focuses on surviving and thriving--more than 70 percent of women with gynecologic cancers now survive!--and helps readers mitigate outcomes and overcome challenges of sexual dysfunction after a cancer diagnosis; reassess the priorities in an intimate relationship to support the patient's struggle, healing, and libido; and learn to interact with...

✦ Subjects

Romance