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What is cancer-related fatigue?
23 minutes Posted May 6, 2022 at 12:49 pm.
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Side effects are sometimes glossed over as buzzwords, and we tend to ignore that fact. As a result, we may actually be harming our patients and underestimating the effects on their independence and mobility.

Cancer related fatigue is probably the most common impairment cancer survivors experience. An estimated 80% of survivors suffer from cancer-related fatigue!

As defined by the NCCN, cancer-related fatigue is a "distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer treatment that is not proportional to activity and interferes with usual function."

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