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Cancer and Sexual Function

Quality of life in general and sexual functioning in particular have become very important in cancer patients. Biological factors such as anatomic alterations, physiological changes and secondary effects of medical intervention may preclude normal sexual functioning even when desire is intact. In spite of modern surgical techniques, improved quality of chemotherapeutic drugs and sophisticated radiation techniques, still many patients complain of impaired sexual function after cancer treatment. Patients should be offered sexual counselling and be informed about the availability of therapies for sexual dysfunction. In this paper we review the topic of sexual functioning after treatment of the most common malignancies in men and women and give suggestions for treatment.