Psychosocial interventions for fatigue during cancer treatment with palliative intent.

CONCLUSIONS: We found little evidence around the benefits of psychosocial interventions provided to reduce fatigue in adult patients with incurable cancer receiving cancer treatment with palliative intent. Additional studies with larger samples are required to assess whether psychosocial interventions are beneficial for addressing fatigue in patients with incurable cancer. PMID: 28708236 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28708236?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Poort H, Peters M, Bleijenberg G, Gielissen MF, Goedendorp MM, Jacobsen P, Verhagen S, Knoop H Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research