Learning to cope with the fatigue caused by cancer.
Nurses working in many different specialties care for people with cancer. Many of these patients are in the palliative phase of their illness: they are no longer looking for a cure but quality of life is of the utmost importance. This article outlines the development of a patient information leaflet on fatigue, one of the most common and debilitating symptoms experienced by this group of people.
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Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*