Observational studyRevista brasileira de enfermagem2025
Cancer symptom cluster in hospitalized women with breast cancer: a descriptive observational study.
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- Symptom Clusters in Brazilian Women With Stage I and Stage III Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study.The breast journal · 2026Article
- Precision Nursing: The Personalized Future of Care and Revolution in Clinical Practice.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2026Article
- Cancer Symptom Clusters in Children and Adolescents with Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
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Abstract
objectivesto describe and analyze the most prevalent cancer symptom clusters as well as their intensity, discomfort and clustering in hospitalized women with non-metastatic malignant breast cancer.
methodsa descriptive observational study, with 100 women hospitalized with non-metastatic breast cancer, recruited at a reference oncology center in southeastern Brazil between June 2022 and March 2023. To analyze cancer symptom clusters, the hierarchical method was used.
resultsfifty-one patients were in stage I of the disease, 13 women in stage II, and 36 women in stage III. The most frequent histological type was ductal carcinoma in situ (38%), followed by invasive carcinoma (33%). The most prevalent cancer symptoms were pain (67%), lack of energy (63%), worrying (62%), and difficulty sleeping (57%), constituting a neuropsychological symptom cluster.
conclusionsthe neuropsychological symptom cluster (pain-lack of energy-worrying-difficulty sleeping) was the most prevalent in women hospitalized with non-metastatic malignant breast neoplasm.
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