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Cancer-Related Fatigue

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Cancer-related fatigue (CrF) is distinguished from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and other types of fatigue, although there are indeed some similarities and overlaps with respect to phenomenology and theoretical explanations [2]. if symptoms and signs of fatigue last for an extended period of time without a defined cause, and if other defined criteria are present, the patient should be diagnosed with CFS [3, 4]. This distinction is especially important to consider for fatigue in long-term cancer survivors.

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Weis, J., Horneber, M. (2015). Diagnosis and Assessment. In: Cancer-Related Fatigue. Springer Healthcare, Tarporley. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-907673-76-4_3

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