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Article: Insomnia is common during chemotherapy.(Psychosomatic Medicine)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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CHICAGO -- The prevalence of insomnia is roughly three times greater among cancer patients than it is among the general population, according to a secondary analysis of more than 500 patients.
The prevalence of insomnia that meets clinical criteria was 45.6% among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, which compares with 19% in the general population. An additional 35% of cancer patients had insomnia symptoms, compared with 15% in the general population, reported Oxana Palesh, Ph.D., a radiation oncologist at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Roughly 80% of the patients continued to ...