Study Links Breast Cancer Pain To Fatigue

Spanish researchers say about 83 percent of those diagnosed with breast cancer survive five years but 66 percent of them suffer fatigue following treatment.

Lead author Manuel Arroyo of the University of Granada linked psychological disorders and physical pain episodes with fatigue after treatment of a breast tumor.

«Cancer-related fatigue is the symptom that most limits quality of life and is most common in patients that survive cancerous processes,» Arroyo says in a statement.

Fifty-nine female patients treated for breast cancer were tracked for one year after treatment and their psychological and physical condition — as well tiredness, pain, limited movement, depression, etc. — was assessed.

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