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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Nurs. 2009 Nov–Dec;32(6):429–436. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181b046ad

Table 7.

Differences in the mean symptom cluster severity scores between patients with breast and prostate cancer at the end of radiation therapy^*

Symptom Cluster	Breast cancer M (SD)	Prostate cancer M (SD)	Z-value^**	p-value
Mood-cognitive symptom cluster	.67 (.61)	.31 (.49)	-4.00	.000
Sickness-behavior symptom cluster	1.02 (.67)	.53 (.55)	-3.88	.000
Treatment-related symptom cluster	2.40 (.55)	1.39 (.48)	-7.70	.000

Possible range of symptom severity scores = 0 to 4

^**

Mann-Whitney U test

M = mean symptom severity score

SD = Standard deviation