Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Review articleSexual intimacy in heterosexual couples after prostate cancer treatment: What we know and what we still need to learn
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2016, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :Only relatively recently, have qualitative methods been used to investigate the importance of sexual intimacy specific to PC survivors. An attempt to aggregate the findings in this area (Beck et al., 2009) took a conceptual rather than an empirical approach and did not include any systematic evaluation or synthesis of studies. Nonetheless, they identified that several psychosexual effects of PC treatment (including difficulties with body image and masculinity, reduced self-esteem and impaired quality of partner/marital relationships) negatively affected the experience of sexual intimacy (Beck et al., 2009).
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