Current Health Hunters Newsletter:

Fatigue is a common problem in cancer patients, both among those undergoing active treatment and in survivors. Some reports show that as many as 90% of cancer patients struggle with fatigue at some point in their journey and a prevalence of up to 45% in cancer survivors. The fatigue that comes with cancer, called cancer-related fatigue (CRF), is different from the fatigue of daily life. CRF causes disruption in all aspects of quality of life, and may be a risk factor for reduced survival.

By definition, CRF is a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment, that is not proportional to recent activity, and interferes with usual functioning. More and more, cancer centers are relying on integrative medicine practitioners to help manage this complex condition with complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies, as these have been shown to be the most promising interventions available at this time.