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Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness.

Diwakar D BalachandranSaadia A FaizLara BashouraEllen Manzullo
Published in: SAGE open medical case reports (2017)
Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessive daytime sleepiness to the patient's cancer-related fatigue.
Keyphrases
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