Purpose/Objectives: To explore an association between sleep quality in children and adolescents undergoing therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and polymorphisms in two proinflammatory cytokines, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Design: Retrospective exploratory...

Purpose/Objectives: To examine subjective sleep quality in women aged 50 and older as predicted by cancer status, age, number of comorbidities, and symptoms of depressed mood; and to describe objective sleep characteristics, insomnia symptom severity, and daytime sleepiness. Design: Descriptive...

Purpose/Objectives: To conduct a metasynthesis of human sleep studies that included women aged 50 years and older with breast cancer across chemotherapy treatment. Data Sources: English publications were searched with the terms sleep and breast cancer via Ovid, PubMed, and EBSCO-host databases...

Purpose/Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of a patient-controlled cognitive-behavioral intervention for pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance during treatment for advanced cancer and to assess initial efficacy of the intervention. Design: One group pre- and post-test design. Setting:...