Cancer Related Fatigue in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

Medical Center Alkmaar

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer; Fatigue

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00261534

M05-057

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the degree of fatigue in patients receiving chemotherapy. Special interest goes out to the course of fatigue throughout five treatments and the actions taken by patients to reduce this fatigue.The correlation between fatigue and haemoglobin will also be subject of study.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of cancer requiring chemotherapy treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Psychological illness
• Life expectancy less than three months
• Lack of basic proficiency in Dutch