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CANCER & TREATMENTS SUPPORT & SURVIVORSHIP PREVENTION & RISK ASSESSMENT CLINICAL TRIALS & RESEARCH LIVING WITH CANCER | |
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Home > Living with Cancer > Handling Side Effects SexualitySex is definitely not the first thing on your mind after a cancer diagnosis. But maintaining a good quality of life is -- and intimacy is a key part of thatIllnesses, like cancer, can affect our sexual response, but usually it affects us temporarily during the immediate aftermath of diagnosis and treatment. In order to counteract this, it's important to first understand the sexual response cycle; which is made up of three parts:1). Desire / interest in love making 2). Arousal, which involves all the physiologic things that happen in a persons body related to sexual functioning. 3). Orgasm: reaching a certain sensory threshold that then results in the sensation of orgasm, which are muscular contractions that occur in the genital region. Read more on this topic:
Sexuality This article first appeared in the Spring, 2001 issue of PROGRESS |
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See Also: Sexuality This article first appeared in the Spring, 2001 issue of PROGRESS
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