Journal of a Sustainable Global South
Vol 4 No 2 (2020): August 2020

Factors Associated to Cancer Related Fatigue: A Literature Review

Putu Oka Yuli Nurhesti (Udayana University)
Made Adi Yudari (Udayana University)
Ni Luh Lasiani (Udayana University)
Luh Gede Lisnawati (Udayana University)
Nyoman Mariani (Udayana University)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2020

Abstract

Cancer related fatigue is one of the common problems that occur in patients with cancer. This condition is also experienced by cancer patients who receive chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplantation, or other cancer treatments. Continued of cancer related fatigue can disturb the quality of life of patients so that a good assessment and management of this condition is needed. The purpose of this study is for factors related to fatigue in cancer patients. These factors can be new scientific evidence for the treatment of fatigue in cancer patients. This was literature review study. Research data is collected from books, research results, journals, magazines and articles related to the research objectives. The results show that various factors associated to cancer related fatigue discussed in patients are hemoglobin level, type and amount of therapy, sleep quality, nutritional status, level of physical activity, psychological pressure, stress, infection status and comorbidities. Therapy on fatigue patients can be done by overcoming the causal factors. Index Terms— cancer, cancer related fatigue, factors associated

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JSGS

Publisher

Subject

Arts Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture Public Health Social Sciences

Description

JSGS (Journal of A Sustainable Global South) [E-ISSN 2622-058X | P-ISSN 2579-6062 | DOI 10.24843] is a refereed journal which reflecting current problems of global development - climate change, geographic restructuring, migration, adaptive urbanism, social justice and other dominant issues, the ...