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ReviewThe breast journal2018

Management of side effects during and post-treatment in breast cancer survivors.

Oxana Palesh, Caroline Scheiber, Shelli Kesler, Karen Mustian, Cheryl Koopman, Lidia Schapira

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Review in The breast journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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72citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Chan-Chuang qigong with breathing meditation improves quality of life and interoceptive awareness in patients with breast cancer: a randomised controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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  17. Factors influencing patient-reported symptom outcomes in women with metastatic breast cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Oxana PaleshDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Caroline ScheiberDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1518-4386
Shelli KeslerMD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Karen MustianDepartment of Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
Cheryl KoopmanDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Lidia SchapiraStanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, CA, USA.
Stanford University · USCancer Prevention Institute of California · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of Rochester · US

Funding

URCC NCORP Research BaseUG1CA189961 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Michelle C Janelsins, KAREN M. MUSTIAN · 2014 to 2026
$67.7M
NCI NIH HHS UG1 CA189961
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer-related fatigue, insomnia, and cancer-related cognitive impairment are commonly experienced symptoms that share psychological and physical manifestations. One or more of these symptoms will affect nearly all patients at some point during their course of treatment or survivorship. These side effects are burdensome and reduce patients' quality of life well beyond their cancer diagnosis and associated care treatments. Cancer-related fatigue, insomnia, and cancer-related cognitive impairment are likely to have multiple etiologies that make it difficult to identify the most effective method to manage them. In this review, we summarized the information on cancer-related fatigue, insomnia, and cancer-related cognitive impairment incidence and prevalence among breast cancer patients and survivors as well as recent research findings on pharmaceutical, psychological, and exercise interventions that have shown effectiveness in the treatment of these side effects. Our review revealed that most current pharmaceutical interventions tend to ameliorate symptoms only temporarily without addressing the underlying causes. Exercise and behavioral interventions are consistently more effective at managing chronic symptoms and possibly address an underlying etiology. Future research is needed to investigate effective interventions that can be delivered directly in clinic to a large portion of patients and survivors.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCancer SurvivorsCognitive Behavioral TherapyCognitive DysfunctionExerciseFatigueFemaleHumansQuality of LifeSleep Initiation and Maintenance Disordersbreast cancer patients and survivorscancer-related side effectsreview articlesymptom management

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PMID28845551
PMCPMC12875397
OpenAlexW2745770550

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