Fatigue in Patients with Cancer : Analysis and Assessment /

This book reviews the literature on fatigue in general and in cancer. A chapter is devoted to identifying the concept of fatigue in cancer patients in comparison to fatigue as experienced in healthy individuals. Descriptors derived from this conceptional analysis were compared to those known from ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glaus, Agnes
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.
Series:Recent results in cancer research ; 145.
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Table of Contents:
  • Review of the Concept Fatigue/Tiredness in Health and Disease, Especially in Cancer
  • A Qualitative Exploration of the Concept of Fatigue/Tiredness in Cancer Patients and in Healthy Individuals
  • Construction of a New Fatigue Assessment Questionaire
  • Testing the Fatigue Assessment Questionaire in Healthy Persons and in Cancer Patients
  • The Relationship between Fatigue and Type and Stage of Cancer
  • Synthesis, General Discussion
  • Appendix.