Background: Cancer has a great impact on the well-being of affected persons and their
caregivers long into survivorship. Objective: This article reviews the state of science on the …

This article reviews the evidence on the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of
insomnia in the context of cancer and proposes several areas for future research. Clinical …

Purpose. This survey was designed to confirm the prevalence and duration of fatigue in the
cancer population and to assess its physical, mental, social, and economic impacts on the …

BACKGROUND Although fatigue is a common symptom among cancer patients, it is also a
common experience in the general, healthy population. Its universality has made it difficult to …

Magnitude differences in scores on a measure of quality of life that correspond to differences
in function or clinical course are called clinically important differences (CIDs). Anchor-based …

Fatigue is one of the most prevalent and distressing symptoms of cancer, and is a common
side-effect of many of the treatments available for the management of malignant disease. We …

Seventeen years after the original study of patient perceptions of the side effects of cancer
chemotherapy by Coates et al., the authors performed a similar survey of 100 patients with …

OBJECTIVE: This study validated a brief measure of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the
Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Fatigue Scale. METHODS: The …

Despite improvements in therapy a large proportion of individuals with cancer will have a
shortened life expectancy because of advanced or metastatic disease. Advances in therapy …

This aim of this systematic review was to determine the prevalence and pattern of cancer-
related fatigue (CRF), and identify factors associated with its development. Relevant …