Sleep Patterns in Patients with Cancer and Patients with Cardiac Disease

Kaye, Janet M.; Kaye, Kendra; Madow, Leo

doi:10.1080/00223980.1983.9915403

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“…Early studies examined subjective sleep reports in cancer patients without objectively recording sleep and found that the patients with cancer had significantly more complaints of difficulty in sleeping than controls [8,28]. Whereas some studies supported the findings that women with breast cancer experience sleep problems [7,29,39], other studies have suggested that the sleep disturbance might be secondary to the pain and psychological distress experienced by these patients [24,25,42].…”

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Fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms prior to chemotherapy for breast cancer

Ancoli‐Israel

Liu

Marler

et al. 2005

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Goals-Previous investigations have shown that women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer experience both disturbed sleep and fatigue. However, most of the previous research examined women either during or after chemotherapy. This study examined sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms in women with breast cancer before the start of chemotherapy.Patients and methods-Eighty five women with Stages I-IIIA breast cancer who were scheduled to begin adjuvant or neo-adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy participated. Each had sleep/ wake activity recorded with actigraphy for 72 consecutive hours and filled out questionnaires on sleep, fatigue, depression, and functional outcome.Main results-On average, the women slept for about 6 h a night and napped for over an hour during the day. Sleep was reported to be disturbed and fatigue levels were high. Circadian rhythms were robust, but women who were more phase-delayed reported more daily dysfunction (p<0.01). Conclusions-The data from the current study suggest that the women with breast cancer likely experience both disturbed sleep and fatigue before the beginning of chemotherapy. Although their circadian rhythms are robust, breast cancer patients with more delayed rhythms experience more daily dysfunction secondary to fatigue. These data suggest that strategies to improve disturbed sleep and to phase-advance circadian rhythms prior to initiation of chemotherapy may be beneficial in improving daily function in breast cancer patients.

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Fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms prior to chemotherapy for breast cancer

Ancoli‐Israel

Liu

Marler

et al. 2005

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“…Tiredness can also result from insomnia, which is a common problem of cancer patients (McCorkle & Quint, 1983;Cannici et al, 1983;Kaye et al, 1983;Silberfarb et al, 1985). Among other things, difficulty getting to sleep and difficulty staying asleep might result from pain.…”

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Fatigue in cancer patients

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Garssen²,

Schuster-Uitterhoeve³

et al. 1993

Br J Cancer

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(Cristensen, 1989).To date there are few studies which systematically register how many cancer patients experience fatigue, in which stage of the disease process and to what extent. To give an indication, a literature-search using MEDLINE with CD-ROM over the period 1980 to 1991 yielded nine references in which 'fatigue' was included in the title and 'cancer' was included in title, keyword or abstract. Eight of these references pertained to nursing research.An appraisal of the research literature concerning fatigue in cancer is presented in this paper to give an overview of what is currently known. Literature, other than obtained using the MEDLINE-procedure, was gathered either by searching for studies in which fatigue was assessed as part of patient functioning or through references of the papers obtained. This procedure does evidently not lead to an exhaustive list of all the studies which included fatigue as an outcome-variable. However, we think to have obtained a representative sample. Topics that will be discussed are: the conceptualisation of fatigue and its measurement, prevalence rates of fatigue during and after treatment and somatic and psychological correlates of fatigue. Finally, considerations with regard to research and interventions will be discussed.

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“…In the present study, we aimed to compare sleep disturbances in patients with GERD with the patients under treatment in oncology department, since little is also known about sleep quality in the people with cancer, whereas sleep disturbance is one of the most common symptoms in patients with malignancy [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Anxiety and depression, known as the most common factors influencing sleep quality, are also the most prevalent psychiatric disorders faced by patients with malignancy [17,18].…”

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