Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness

Diwakar D Balachandran; Saadia A Faiz; Lara Bashoura; Ellen Manzullo

doi:10.1177/2050313X17748865

Cancer-related fatigue presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness

SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2017 Dec 19:5:2050313X17748865. doi: 10.1177/2050313X17748865. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Diwakar D Balachandran¹, Saadia A Faiz¹, Lara Bashoura¹, Ellen Manzullo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
² Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Abstract

Cancer-related fatigue is a common symptom in cancer patients which commonly occurs in relation to sleep disturbance. We report a case of a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor, in whom polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing were utilized to objectively quantify the contribution of excessive daytime sleepiness to the patient's cancer-related fatigue.

Keywords: Cancer-related fatigue; excessive daytime sleepiness; multiple sleep latency test; polysomnography.

Publication types

Case Reports