Description
An intimate partnership has physical and psychological components, both of which ceaselessly take a hit when cancer enters the union. The prospect, and then the process, of treatments generally tend to alter the way the two people relate to one another. When the diagnosis is one of gynecologic or reproductive cancer for a girl, questions of sexual intimacy and function ceaselessly 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 specializes in surviving and thriving—more than 70 percent of women with gynecologic cancers now live on!—and helps readers mitigate outcomes and overcome challenges of sexual dysfunction after a cancer diagnosis; reassess the priorities in an intimate relationship to improve the patient’s struggle, healing, and libido; and discover ways to interact with the professionals tasked with saving lives and enhancing those areas affected by cancer diagnosis and remedy. Sex and Cancer features stories that illuminate insights about the have an effect on of gynecologic and reproductive cancers on relationships. The stories give life to guidance that’s critical in shaping the effect that gynecologic cancer has on intimate relationships. And readers will find insight, comfort, and suggestions for addresses the questions about intimacy and sexual function that are ceaselessly left unexpressed.