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Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study
PURPOSE: Recovering cancer survivors hope to return to their premorbid lifestyle after treatment and be free from the disease. They are, however, faced with some psychosocial issues, including fatigue, which could negatively impact their quality of life. With increasing cancer awareness and improvem...
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Cancer Intelligence
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9458267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158984 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2022.1420 |
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author | Folorunso, Sharif Adeniyi Ntekim, Atara Abdus-salam, Abbas Adesina Olabumuyi, Adeniyi Folorunso, Aminat Omolara Igbinoba, Festus Adenipekun, Adeniyi Abidemi |
author_facet | Folorunso, Sharif Adeniyi Ntekim, Atara Abdus-salam, Abbas Adesina Olabumuyi, Adeniyi Folorunso, Aminat Omolara Igbinoba, Festus Adenipekun, Adeniyi Abidemi |
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description | PURPOSE: Recovering cancer survivors hope to return to their premorbid lifestyle after treatment and be free from the disease. They are, however, faced with some psychosocial issues, including fatigue, which could negatively impact their quality of life. With increasing cancer awareness and improvement in treatment, it is expected that the number of cancer survivors will increase in Nigeria. Little has, however, been done with regard to survivorship care in the country. It is important to explore fatigue in this group of patients with a view to find ways of reducing it to the barest minimum. AIM: To assess the level of fatigue in breast cancer survivors on follow-up visit at a radiation oncology clinic and compare it with age and sex-matched apparently healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fatigue levels were obtained using the Fatigue Symptom Inventory (FSI). Kruskal–Wallis H test was used to compare the FSI scores in cases and controls. Chi-squared test was used for comparison of proportions. Level of significance was set at 5%. RESULTS: Seventy cancer survivors (cases) and 70 apparently healthy age (±1)-matched controls were recruited. The prevalence of fatigue was higher among cases than controls (24.3% versus 10%; p = 0.025). Breast cancer survivors reported significantly worse fatigue on the day they were most fatigued (p = 0.017), least fatigued (0.047) and fatigued on average (p = 0.006) compared to controls. Fatigue also significantly interferes with the ability to concentrate (p = 0.040) and relate with people (p = 0.002) more in cases compared to controls. While fatigue was more common in the morning and afternoon in breast cancer survivors, fatigue either occurred more in the evening or followed no daily pattern in the controls. CONCLUSION: Breast cancer survivors reported worse fatigue, suggesting the need to include fatigue screening as part of post-treatment follow-up. There is also a need to investigate the factors responsible for this and explore ways of reducing or eliminating it. |
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spelling | pubmed-94582672022-09-23 Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study Folorunso, Sharif Adeniyi Ntekim, Atara Abdus-salam, Abbas Adesina Olabumuyi, Adeniyi Folorunso, Aminat Omolara Igbinoba, Festus Adenipekun, Adeniyi Abidemi Ecancermedicalscience Research PURPOSE: Recovering cancer survivors hope to return to their premorbid lifestyle after treatment and be free from the disease. They are, however, faced with some psychosocial issues, including fatigue, which could negatively impact their quality of life. With increasing cancer awareness and improvement in treatment, it is expected that the number of cancer survivors will increase in Nigeria. Little has, however, been done with regard to survivorship care in the country. It is important to explore fatigue in this group of patients with a view to find ways of reducing it to the barest minimum. AIM: To assess the level of fatigue in breast cancer survivors on follow-up visit at a radiation oncology clinic and compare it with age and sex-matched apparently healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fatigue levels were obtained using the Fatigue Symptom Inventory (FSI). Kruskal–Wallis H test was used to compare the FSI scores in cases and controls. Chi-squared test was used for comparison of proportions. Level of significance was set at 5%. RESULTS: Seventy cancer survivors (cases) and 70 apparently healthy age (±1)-matched controls were recruited. The prevalence of fatigue was higher among cases than controls (24.3% versus 10%; p = 0.025). Breast cancer survivors reported significantly worse fatigue on the day they were most fatigued (p = 0.017), least fatigued (0.047) and fatigued on average (p = 0.006) compared to controls. Fatigue also significantly interferes with the ability to concentrate (p = 0.040) and relate with people (p = 0.002) more in cases compared to controls. While fatigue was more common in the morning and afternoon in breast cancer survivors, fatigue either occurred more in the evening or followed no daily pattern in the controls. CONCLUSION: Breast cancer survivors reported worse fatigue, suggesting the need to include fatigue screening as part of post-treatment follow-up. There is also a need to investigate the factors responsible for this and explore ways of reducing or eliminating it. Cancer Intelligence 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9458267/ /pubmed/36158984 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2022.1420 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Folorunso, Sharif Adeniyi Ntekim, Atara Abdus-salam, Abbas Adesina Olabumuyi, Adeniyi Folorunso, Aminat Omolara Igbinoba, Festus Adenipekun, Adeniyi Abidemi Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title | Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title_full | Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title_fullStr | Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title_full_unstemmed | Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title_short | Fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in South West Nigeria: a case–control study |
title_sort | fatigue as a complicating factor in the recovery of breast cancer survivors treated at an oncology clinic in south west nigeria: a case–control study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9458267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158984 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2022.1420 |
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