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OncologyModerate
Cancer-Related Fatigue
Palliative Medicine · Oncology
Moderate
Severity
Very common — reported by the majority of patients undergoing active cancer treatment
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Palliative Medicine
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by the cancer itself through inflammatory processes and altered metabolism
- 2as well as by chemotherapy
- 3radiation therapy
- 4and surgery
- 5which place additional physiological stress on the body. Contributing factors include anemia
- 6poor nutrition
- 7pain
- 8sleep disturbance
- 9depression
- 10and other medications. The exact biological mechanism involves cytokine release and disruption of normal energy metabolism pathways.
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