Feasibility of Investigational Procedures and Efficacy of a Personalized Omega-3 Dietary Intervention in Alleviating Pain and Psychoneurological Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors

As of 2019, more than 3.8 million US women had a history of breast cancer (BC), comprising the largest group of cancer survivors (DeSantis  et al., 2019). Due to BC and/or its treatment, many women experience a myriad of distressing symptoms, e.g., pain, fatigue, depression, and sleep disturbance, referred to herein as psychoneurological symptoms (PNS) (Starkweather et al., 2013). The reported prevalence rates of PNS include pain ( 84%), sleep disturbance (78%), fatigue (51%), and depression (32%); these symptoms are elevated in BC survivors (BCS) compared with national averages among American adults (Hamood et al., 2018; Lee et al., 2020; Schreier et al., 2019).
Source: Pain Management Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Original Research Source Type: research