press release: Moffitt Cancer Center researchers: Quality of life as important as quantity of life

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers: Quality of life as important as quantity of life

"The question of how well people are surviving cancer is as important as how long they survive cancer," .....


Prolonged fatigue after treatment


In a recent study published in Cancer, researchers from Moffitt found that when patients treated with chemotherapy or chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer were compared to a control group who had not had cancer, the patients who had experienced chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy had more fatigue. These patients also had fatigue that lasted years after their therapy.
"This finding was contrary to our expectations," Jacobsen said. "Conventional thinking is that patients receiving chemotherapy would, over time, experience less fatigue and would eventually see their fatigue diminish to the levels of controls who had not had cancer, or to the level of fatigue they had prior to their chemotherapy.".......