RT Book, Section
A1 Escalante, Carmen P.
A1 Manzullo, Ellen F.
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125785527
T1 Cancer-related Fatigue
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125785527
RD 2024/04/25
AB Fatigue  is  the  most  common  symptom  among  cancer  patients  and  a  common  symptom  among  cancer  survivors.  Cancer-related  fatigue  (CRF)  is  defined  as  a  distressing,  persistent,  subjective  sense  of  tiredness  or  exhaustion  related  to  cancer  or  cancer  treatment  that  is  not  proportional  to  recent  activity  and  interferes  with  usual  functioning.1  In  comparison  to  the  fatigue  experienced  by  healthy  individuals,  CRF  is  more  severe,  more  distressing,2,3  and  less  likely  to  be  relieved  by  rest.4  The  International  Classification  of  Diseases,  10th  revision  (ICD-10),  describes  the  CRF  diagnostic  criteria  as  follows5,6,7: