Claudia West

TL;DR: Four relatively distinct patient subgroups were identified based on patients experiences with four highly prevalent and related symptoms; the subgroup of patients who reported low levels of all four symptoms reported the best functional status and QOL.

TL;DR: The use of a psychoeducational intervention that incorporates nurse coaching within the framework of self-care can improve the management of cancer pain.

TL;DR: One factor that seems to contribute to ineffective cancer pain management is poor adherence to the analgesic regimen, as measured by adherence rates for ATC and PRN analgesics.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that LPCA can be used to differentiate distinct phenotypes based on a symptom cluster associated with sickness behavior, and provides new evidence for the role of IL4 in the modulation of a sickness behavior symptom cluster in oncology patients and their FCs.

TL;DR: Interindividual and diurnal variability in fatigue found in women with breast cancer is similar to that found in men with prostate cancer, however, the predictors of interindividual variability in fatiguing between these 2 cohorts were different.