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Pelvic radiotherapy has a persistent deteriorating effect on the vaginal mucosa impacting negatively on the sexual functioning in female cancer patients. Hopefully, modern radiotherapy modalities will cause less vaginal morbidity but results are awaited to confirm this assumption. Health care professionals are encouraged to address potential sexual dysfunction both before and after radiotherapy and to focus more on quality than on quantity.
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Jensen et al. (2015) studied this question.