الفهرس 
INCIDENCE AND MORTALITYOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Gynaecologic cancers are malignancies that starts in women’s reproductive organs including five main types which are cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer. Relatively little is known about the determinants of QOL in women with gynaecologic malignancies and what can impact it, including matters of sexuality and intimacy. Vast amount of evidence exists showing that cancer dramatically impacts woman’s sexuality, sexual functioning, intimate relationships and sense of self where sexual functioning itself can be affected by illness, pain, anxiety, stressful circumstances and medications. With improvements in early detection, surgery and adjuvant therapy for gynaecologic cancers, long term survival and cure are becoming possible, thus quality of life is becoming a major issue for patients and should be addressed by providers.
Aim of the this study was to assess the quality of life of gynaecological cancer patients and to detect any sexual dysfunction in women undergoing treatment or being seen in follow-up for gynaecologic cancers in Clinical Oncology department Ain Shams University.
Overall there was a strong positive significant correlation between the quality of life and sexual functioning, few patient demographics were found to have significant effect on sexuality and quality of life where lubrication was significantly affected by female genital mutilation, age was significantly correlated to both the SWB and EWB, also the SWB was affected by marital years as regard to effect of treatment PWB was significantly affected by time from last chemotherapy received and lubrication was also affected by radiotherapy
In conclusion, quality of life is strongly correlated to sexual functioning which is considered an integral part of patient’s lives that must be assessed and followed for gynecological cancer patients as patients don’t get to express their concerns about their sexual health.