Cancer symptom cluster in hospitalized women with breast cancer: a descriptive observational study
ABSTRACT Objectives: to 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. Methods: a descriptive observational study, with 100 women hospitalized with non-metastat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem |
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| Online Access: | http://revodonto.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672025000200157&lng=en&tlng=en |
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| Summary: | ABSTRACT Objectives: to 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. Methods: a 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. Results: fifty-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. Conclusions: the 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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| ISSN: | 1984-0446 |