Management of Cancer Symptoms: Pain, Depression, and Fatigue. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 61

摘要

Despite dramatic advances in cancer biology and a widening array of treatment options, cancer continues to cause devastating suffering not only to hundreds of thousands of patients who die of it each year in the United States, but also to some patients who are successfully treated and become cancer survivors. Pain, depression, and fatigue are prominent contributors to suffering in many of these individuals. Clinical research on these symptoms holds out the hope of relief for suffering through better understanding of these symptoms and the development of new, more effective treatments.