Abstract

Cancer related fatigue occurs on most days throughout the disease’s course persists for at least 2 weeks and interferes with the activities of day living. Subjective/multifactorial symptom. Stress factor with a negative impact on QoL. When reaching disabling degrees of fatigue the patient is forced to abandon any and all physical activity moving to a regime of inactivity. Fatigue is the most frequently reported symptom in lung ca patients throughout the entire course of the disease. Antineoplasic treatments are known to cause treatment-related fatigue adding complexity to this problematic.

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