Fatigue syndrome due to localized radiation.

Abstract:

:For cancer patients, fatigue is a disturbing symptom caused by many factors. Since fatigue is the most common side effect of localized radiation to the breast, this treatment provides a unique opportunity to follow patients prospectively as they develop one type of fatigue. We evaluated the effect of radiation treatment in 15 women with Stage I or II node-negative breast cancer who were otherwise healthy. Fatigue, contrary to our hypothesis, did not increase linearly with cumulative radiation dose over time. It dropped from the first to second week and rose in the third week. The cumulative effects reached a plateau in the fourth week (after an average of 17 fractions), which was maintained during the remaining weeks of treatment. Within 3 wk after treatment, fatigue had diminished. No patient had sustained depressive symptoms. Cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in 5 patients at 6 and 12 wk did not change from just before radiation. Other markers, including reverse triiodothyronine and pulse change with orthostatic stress, did not correlate with subjective fatigue nor cumulative radiation in 15 patients. The curve of the fatigue syndrome during treatment conforms to the adaptation of the organism to a continuing stress and begins to describe a mild fatigue syndrome associated with radiation.

journal_name

J Pain Symptom Manage

authors

Greenberg DB,Sawicka J,Eisenthal S,Ross D

doi

10.1016/0885-3924(92)90106-r

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-01-01 00:00:00

pages

38-45

issue

1

eissn

0885-3924

issn

1873-6513

pii

0885-3924(92)90106-R

journal_volume

7

pub_type

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