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Get facts about specific surgeries, what to expect, how they can affect your life, and how to cope with the changes.
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Colostomy
A colostomy is a lifesaving surgery that lets a person enjoy a full range of activities, including traveling, sports, family life and work, even though they have a stoma and may wear a pouching system. |
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Illeostomy
An ileostomy is a life-saving surgery that lets individuals to enjoy a full range of activities including traveling, sports, family life and work, even though they have a stoma and wear a pouching system. They continue to enjoy an expected life span. |
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Loss of One or Both Testicles
Testicles are as symbolic of manhood as breasts are of womanhood. Although some men are not upset about their new appearance, others fear a partner's reaction. |
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Penectomy
When a man has cancer of the penis or of the bottom end of the urethra, the best treatment may be amputation of part or all of the penis. These operations are rare, but they can have a devastating effect on a man's self-image and his sex life. |
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Sexual Impact Following Breast Cancer Treatment
Because breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, sexual problems have been linked to mastectomy more often than to any other cancer treatment. Losing a breast, or occasionally both breasts if a woman has a second tumor later on, can be traumatic. The most common sexual side effects stem... |
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Sexual Impact of Laryngectomy
Laryngectomy is the surgery that removes the voice box. It leaves the patient without the normal means of speech and you breathe through a stoma in your neck... |
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Speech After Laryngectomy
There are several kinds of speech rehabilitation available to the patient after a total laryngectomy (removal of the voice box)... |
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Stomas
A stoma is an opening in the body that is made surgically to replace a normal opening blocked by a cancerous tumor. A stoma may also be necessary if the natural opening is surgically removed as part of cancer treatment. Stomas serve as alternative sites for certain key bodily functions. The most... |
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Urostomy
For the thousands of people every year suffering from bladder disease, urostomy (urinary diversion) surgery can be the beginning of a new and healthier life. |
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