Childhood trauma, depression linked to higher risk of longer-term fatigue in breast cancer survivors

This study highlights the variability in people ’s experience of fatigue after treatment, which ultimately will allow for more personalized treatments for cancer survivors. In addition to psychosocial predictors, cancer treatments were also associated with fatigue trajectories. “Now that we know some of the risk factors for fatigue, and understand who are most at risk, we can really try to target those women and take more preventative measures to help them earlier in the course of their cancer experience,” said Ganz, who is also a distinguished professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Thestudy was published today in the journal Health Psychology.The research study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where Ganz is a member of the scientific advisory board.The study co-authors are Dr. Michael Irwin, Steve Cole and Laura Petersen from UCLA and Joshua Wiley, from Monash University in Australia.
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