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Cancer and Sexual Health pp 51–68Cite as

Physiology of Female Genital Sexual Arousal

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The waiting room of a busy oncology practitioner’s office will include women patients who may also have sexual health concerns [1–7]. In many cases, the sexual health problems of these oncologic patients will be highly associated with their female oncologic health care problems and/or the treatments for their oncologic condition [8–12]. In the vast majority of cases, however, while great attention is provided to the oncologic concern, there is only limited attention given to their sexual health problems.

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