title: Is a new perspective for definition and diagnostic criteria of fibromyalgia in early stage cancer patients necessary?
abstract: Fibromyalgia is a most common pain syndrome characterized by the presence of chronic widespread pain and tenderness with manual palpation. However there is no enough data about frequent of fibromyalgia syndrome in patients with cancer. How often FM is being used in oncological practice and how we are managing this case by medical oncologists. Widespread pain index and symptom severity scale are not clear enough in patients with cancer when ACR-2010 diagnostic criteria for FM are considered. In conclusion, there is it may more prevalence of fibromyalgia in patients with cancer. For the diagnosis of fibromyalgia, be new diagnostic criteria for early-stage cancer patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey. Electronic address: mugla.medicaloncology@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tanriverdi
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000628:therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D015995:Prevalence; D011788:Quality of Life