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Sex and cancer : intimacy, romance, and love after diagnosis and treatment / Saketh R. Guntupalli and Maryann Karinch ; foreword by Camille Grammer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guntupalli, Saketh R., 1978- author.
- Karinch, Maryann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Diseases--Psychological aspects.
- Cancer--Patients--Sexual behavior.
- Cancer--Complications.
- Cancer.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: what hope does this book give you?
- Understanding the impact
- What happens first?
- What happens next?
- Issues and some answers
- Like a rat in a lab
- The new normal
- Overcoming the impact
- One challenge at a time
- The continuum of solutions
- Your new normal
- Conclusion: focus on the partners.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40214-5
- OCLC:
- 974035666
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