Chapter 27: Living with and beyond cancer
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Evidence‐based approaches
Holistic Needs Assessment can enable effective identification of patients’ concerns and when partnered with accurate care planning can facilitate early interventions, diagnosis of consequences of treatment, improved communication and better equity of care (Macmillan Cancer Support [154]). It can be helpful to explore with the patient their sexual health before treatment or surgery to obtain a baseline. This is particularly important if it is known that the planned treatment will have significant consequences for sexual health.
Procedure guideline 27.8
