[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of pain in patients with cancer: a systematic review of the past 40 years

MHJ Van den Beuken-van Everdingen, JM De Rijke… - Annals of oncology, 2007 - Elsevier
Background: Despite the abundant literature on this topic, accurate prevalence estimates of
pain in cancer patients are not available. We investigated the prevalence of pain in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] A literature synthesis of symptom prevalence and severity in persons receiving active cancer treatment

CM Reilly, DW Bruner, SA Mitchell, LM Minasian… - Supportive Care in …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Patients with cancer experience acute and chronic symptoms caused by their
underlying disease or by the treatment. While numerous studies have examined the impact …

The effect of symptom clusters on functional status and quality of life in women with breast cancer

MJ Dodd, MH Cho, BA Cooper, C Miaskowski - European Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The purposes of this study of women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy
with/without radiation therapy were to determine whether:(1) subgroups of oncology …

[HTML][HTML] Subgroups of patients with cancer with different symptom experiences and quality-of-life outcomes: a cluster analysis

C Miaskowski - Number 5/September 2006, 2006 - onf.ons.org
Purpose/Objectives: To identify subgroups of outpatients with cancer based on their
experiences with the symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression, and pain; to …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep/wake disturbances in people with cancer and their caregivers: State of the science

AM Berger - Number 6/2005, 2007 - onf.ons.org
Sleep/Wake Disturbances in People With Cancer and Their Caregivers: State of the Science |
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[HTML][HTML] Symptom cluster research: conceptual, design, measurement, and analysis issues

AM Barsevick, K Whitmer, LM Nail, SL Beck… - Journal of pain and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Cancer patients may experience multiple concurrent symptoms caused by the cancer,
cancer treatment, or their combination. The complex relationships between and among …

Conceptual issues in symptom clusters research and their implications for quality-of-life assessment in patients with cancer

C Miaskowski, BE Aouizerat, M Dodd… - Journal of the National …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The majority of the research on the various aspects of symptom management has focused
on individual symptoms. However, patients with cancer often experience multiple symptoms …

Pain, fatigue, disturbed sleep and distress comprised a symptom cluster that related to quality of life and functional status of lung cancer surgery patients

S Lin, Y Chen, L Yang, J Zhou - Journal of clinical nursing, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To explore the common symptom cluster in lung cancer patients with
surgical treatment and to evaluate the relationships between symptom cluster and patients' …

Symptom clusters: myth or reality?

A Aktas, D Walsh, L Rybicki - Palliative medicine, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Clinical experience suggests that many symptoms occur together. In this paper, we examine
the rationale and evidence base for symptom clusters in different medical fields, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] The elusive concept of the symptom cluster

AM Barsevick - Number 5/September 2007, 2007 - onf.ons.org
Purpose/Objectives: To provide an integration and synthesis of literature on the definition
and importance of the symptom cluster, theoretical frameworks to explain it, analysis …