| Literature DB >> 11598891 |
C P Escalante1, T Grover, B A Johnson, M Harle, H Guo, T R Mendoza, E Rivera, V Ho, E L Lee, C S Cleeland.
Abstract
Cancer-related fatigue is now the most prevalent symptom of cancer, occurring in 60-90% of patients. Fatigue has been identified by cancer patients as a factor influencing functionality and quality of life. Our objectives in developing a fatigue specialty clinic at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center were to improve our patients' quality of life by decreasing fatigue; educate health care providers, patients, and patients' families about cancer-related fatigue; develop an appropriate clinical and diagnostic evaluation for this symptom; correlate objective measures of fatigue with its clinical evaluation; and develop innovative treatment plans for cancer-related fatigue. This article describes the general clinic design and operations and the preliminary analysis of the first 40 patients evaluated in the fatigue clinic. Copyright 2001 American Cancer Society.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11598891 DOI： 10.1002/1097-0142(20010915)92:6+<1708::aid-cncr1501>3.0.co;2-f
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer ISSN： 0008-543X Impact factor: 6.860