“…Along with the development of the concept of holism, SHC was included as a basic component of nursing care as well, while in nursing research and education remarkable advances were recorded: models for the assessment of cancer patients' sexuality were developed and, lately, promising intervention projects were implemented for the provision of intensive SHC [2,4,13,24,34,35,45,58,59,62,67,71,72,74,75,91,93,103,106,124,125]. Since then, several studies have concluded with some important findings: the majority of cancer patients report sexual issues to be a priority [79,80]; concerns about sexual function are augmented and sustained after the experience of cancer [97]; a remarkable number of individuals are willing to discuss sexual concerns with their health providers [110], while trained oncology nurses are considered to be explicitly helpful with patients' sexual problems [4,75].…”