Why Do I Need to Tell All Ну Doctors about My Cancer History? If you see or speak to doctors who are not oncologists, such as your gynecologist or cardiologist, be sure to tell them that you recently completed cancer therapy. Your history of cancer treatment is an important piece of information when a doctor [...]
How Is Postcancer Fatigue Related to Depression? As is discussed in the section on depression, dealing with the consequences of postcancer fatigue can increase your risk of developing depression. Depression may have been ruled out when you were first evaluated, and you may be coping as well as humanly possible. You believe that you cannot [...]
What If I Am Faced with Many Big Decisions in My Life Now That Mу Treatments Are Over? Recovery from cancer treatment often brings opportunities for making big changes. Your work situation may have changed while you were being treated. Your changed perspective may lead you to feel that you want to make a career [...]
If I Am Experiencing Posttreatment Anxiety, How Long Will It Last? Anxiety will come and go, especially around special times such as checkups and anniversaries. Recognize that anxiety is a common companion during the transition to your new normal life. The intensity and duration of your anxiety will depend on your normal tendency toward anxiety, [...]
In Australia each state has its own Central Cancer Registry where hospitals are required to send information on cancer statistics. There is a move to develop hospital-based cancer registries along the lines of the US model, which enables hospitals and doctors to follow the course and outcome of their patients diagnosed and treated for cancer. [...]
Some evidence indicates that with increasing age a person’s emotional response is altered, and his curiosity fades. The extent varies considerably between people, and in some, emotional ‘instability’ is evident. This means that an old person weeps easily, and becomes sentimental. In a way, many old people have escaped the convention of our culture, which [...]
Recent studies by Masters and Johnson in their clinical laboratory have shown that most physiological sexual arousal patterns and responses of homosexual men are identical to those of heterosexual men. There is one important psychological difference which favours homosexual men. This is that homosexual men have a greater concern than heterosexual men that each partner [...]
Syphilis and gonorrhoea are the most serious of the diseases as far as health is concerned. Syphilis, if untreated, can have devastating effects. Gonorrhoea, especially in women, can cause sterility, if it is not treated adequately. NSU is annoying, rather than serious, although it may cause arthritis in a few men. Trichomoniasis and candidosis, which [...]
When John married, his pattern of sexual behaviour persisted. Sex for him was some foreplay, which both he and his wife enjoyed, and then rapid ejaculation, which satisfied him but left his wife sexually frustrated. Her frustration increased because she thought it wrong to masturbate and the idea of cunnilingus was repellent. Her mother told [...]
If three seminal analyses show that a man has no spermatozoa, a sample of his blood is taken and a hormone called follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is measured. The blood level of FSH may be high or normal. A high FSH level indicates that the nests in his testes, where the spermatozoa develop, are so [...]