Fatigue in long‐term breast carcinoma survivors

By J. Bower, Patricia A. Ganz, Katherine A. Desmond, C. Bernaards, Julia H. Rowland, B. Meyerowitz, T. Belin. Cancer, 2006

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It's Not over When it's Over: Long-Term Symptoms in Cancer Survivors—A Systematic Review (2010, background): “Breast cancer survivors treated with some combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy reported fatigue immediately following treatment [10-14] at prevalence rates of 26-28% [12, 13], up to 6 months post-treatment [12, 14, 15] at a reported rate of 17% [12], 6 to 12 months po”
Health psychology: psychological adjustment to chronic disease. (2007, background): “Examples are the research on response expectancies as predictors of adjustment (e.g., Montgomery & Bovbjerg 2004) and on determinants of fatigue (Bower et al. 2003, 2006).”
Cancer-related fatigue: the scale of the problem. (2007, background): “A recent study of 763 women who survived breast cancer found that 35% still reported fatigue 1–5 years after completion of their treatment, and 34% reported fatigue 5–10 years after treatment completion [ 33 ].”
Cytokines and their relationship to the symptoms and outcome of cancer (2008, background): “Fatigue and cognitive decline have a negative impact on quality of life and such symptoms can persist for at least 10 years in some breast cancer survivor”