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Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness

Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessi...

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Autores principales: Balachandran, Diwakar D, Faiz, Saadia A, Bashoura, Lara, Manzullo, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5753883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29318018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17748865
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author Balachandran, Diwakar D
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description Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessive daytime sleepiness to the patient’s cancer-related fatigue.
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spelling pubmed-57538832018-01-09 Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness Balachandran, Diwakar D Faiz, Saadia A Bashoura, Lara Manzullo, Ellen SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessive daytime sleepiness to the patient’s cancer-related fatigue. SAGE Publications 2017-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5753883/ /pubmed/29318018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17748865 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness
title Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness
title_full Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness
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title_short Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness
title_sort cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5753883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29318018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17748865
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