Abstract

Cancer related fatigue (CRF) is a very common symptom among palliative care patients as over 80% of them reported at least a moderate level of fatigue measured by the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI).1 Locally, we found that more than half of the patients in the palliative care in-patient unit (PCU) complained of fatigue,2 which continued to trouble 41% of patients in their last two weeks of life.3 Among the various treatments for fatigue, bright light therapy (BLT) emerged as a potentially useful non-pharmacological treatment.

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