What is it about?
fatigue is one of the most commonly and frequently reported symptoms by cancer patients. The cause of fatigue is multifactorial in origin, and its impact varies in range from affecting patients’ daily social life, and physical, mental, economic, and social well-being to becoming a threat to their quality of life. Therefore every cancer patient needs to be screened for fatigue and considered as one of the vital signs.
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Why is it important?
In Ethiopia, national cancer control strategies are developed based on the WHO global cancer control strategy that incorporates cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and palliative care for cancer population. However, it does not incorporate fatigue in different types of service like pain; as a result, the factors associated with fatigue are not well known. This is one of the most serious challenges to effectively managing fatigue. Therefore, the primary goal of the current study is to evaluate the prevalence of fatigue and its contributing factors among adult cancer patients undergoing cancer therapy at the oncology unit of the cancer treatment center in the Amhara region.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. This article also lead to rare disease groups contacting me and ultimately to a greater involvement in rare disease research.
Dejen Tsegaye
Debre Markos University
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This page is a summary of: Fatigue and associated factors among adult cancer patients receiving cancer treatment at oncology unit in Amhara region, Ethiopia, PLOS One, January 2023, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279628.
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