Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness

Diwakar D Balachandran; Saadia A Faiz; Lara Bashoura; Ellen Manzullo

doi:10.1177/2050313X17748865

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports (Dec 2017)

Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness

Diwakar D Balachandran,
Saadia A Faiz,
Lara Bashoura,
Ellen Manzullo

Affiliations

Diwakar D Balachandran: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Saadia A Faiz: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Lara Bashoura: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Ellen Manzullo: Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17748865
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5

Abstract

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Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessive daytime sleepiness to the patient’s cancer-related fatigue.

Published in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-313X (Online)
Publisher: SAGE Publishing
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
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