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Priscila was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2011. She speaks about the changes in body image and sexuality she experienced after her mastectomy, and how she has navigated a newfound pleasure in intimacy.  

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Priscila fue diagnosticada con cáncer de mama en etapa temprana en 2011. Ella habla sobre los cambios en su imagen corporal y su sexualidad que tenía después de su mastectomía, y cómo ha navegado el placer en la intimidad.

Additional resources:

• Talking to your partner about sex and intimacy
• Coping with changes to body image
• Finding help for sexual side effects, with Lyndsey Harper, MD
• Using a dilator to improve your sexual health
• Sexual health during breast cancer treatment
• Intimacy and sexuality with metastatic breast cancer
• What I wish I knew: Dealing with sexual side effects
• Breast cancer worksheet: Speaking to your partner about sex and intimacy
• Breast cancer worksheet: Speaking to your doctor about sex

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This video was supported by the Grant or Cooperative Agreement Number 1 NU58DP006672, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.