Clinical needs assessment for sexual health among cancer patients receiving pelvic radiation: Implications for development of a radiation oncology sexual health clinic.

Background: Cancer patients treated with pelvic radiation therapy (RT) often experience sexual health-related side effects during and following treatment. A clinical needs assessment was used to evaluate sexual health needs and to determine how needs differed between patients receiving and who had completed RT.

Methods And Materials: A questionnaire was used to evaluate sexual health needs among patients treated with pelvic RT.