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Pathophysiology of Cancer-Related Fatigue

Xin Shelley Wang
CJON 2008, 12(5), 11-20 DOI: 10.1188/08.CJON.S2.11-20
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is influenced and modulated by a number of critical factors, and the mechanism that is both necessary and sufficient to induce development of severe fatigue in patients with cancer has not yet been identified. Specific research efforts to understand the factors that may...
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Is Cancer-Related Fatigue the Sixth Vital Sign?

Deborah K. Mayer
CJON 2008, 12(5), 5 DOI:
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Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Brief Overview of Current Nursing Perspectives and Experiences

Barbara Given
CJON 2008, 12(5), 7-9 DOI: 10.1188/08.CJON.S2.7-9
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has often been called the "sixth vital sign" and was the focus of a symposium at the Oncology Nursing Society's 32nd Annual Congress, where nurses discussed CRF's impact on patients. Despite this dialogue, current nursing perspectives and practice still need to be...
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Atypical Fatigue

Kathy Sharp
CJON 2007, 11(5), 628-630 DOI: 10.1188/07.628-630
Case Study: Mrs. S is a 63-year-old retired teacher who returns to the office for breast cancer follow-up. She was diagnosed with intraductal carcinoma, and her treatment included a modified radial mastectomy followed by four cycles of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. Her tumor was estrogen...
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Evidence-Based Practice

Putting Evidence Into Practice: Evidence-Based Interventions for Fatigue During and Following Cancer and Its Treatment

Sandra A. Mitchell
Susan L. Beck
Linda Edwards Hood
Katen Moore
Ellen R. Tanner
CJON 2007, 11(1), 99-113 DOI: 10.1188/07.CJON.99-113
Download the 2014 revision to Putting Evidence Into Practice interventions for fatigue for free at https://cjon.ons.org/file/13991/download by Mitchell et al., CJON, 18(6, Suppl.), 38-58. Cancer-related fatigue has a significant impact on patients' physical and psychosocial functioning, symptom...
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