Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1263
Sexuality in the aftermath
of breast and prostate cancer
Gendered experiences
Kicki Klaeson
Linköping 2011
The experience of sexuality in people with cancer diagnosis is a rather unexplored field. In this thesis the author describes sexuality from a lifeworld perspective in women with breast and men with prostate cancer. By conducting individual interviews combined with focus groups, the researcher tries to elucidate the unique and the collective experiences among these people. A gender based analyse is done in the summaries of the four different studies.
The author Kicki Klaeson, RN, MPH, is a practicing oncol-ogy nurse at the Department of Oncoloncol-ogy, Surgical Clinic, Hospital in Lidköping, Sweden. In collaborating with profes-sor Carina Berterö, Department of Medical and Health Sci-ences, Faculty of Health SciSci-ences, Linköping University and Kerstin Sandell associate professor, Department for Gender Studies, Lund University, her research focusing on experi-ences of sexuality in people with breast and prostate cancer.