Many patients with cancer suffer from anemia, depression, and an impaired quality of life
(QoL). These patients often also show decreased plasma tryptophan levels and increased …

Objectives: Fatigue is a common feature of physical and neurological disease as well as
psychiatric disorders, often reported amongst patients' most severe and distressing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sleep difficulty is a prominent concern of cancer patients, yet there has been no large study
of the prevalence and nature of sleep disturbance in cancer patients. This cross-sectional …

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 …

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 …

Fatigue is a debilitating symptom or side effect experienced by many patients on long-term
dialysis therapy. Fatigue has a considerable effect on patient health-related quality of life …