. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2014 Nov 4;121(5):766–773. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29097

Table 3.

Percentages of Patients Reporting Moderate-to-Severe Symptoms, by Tumor Staging

Symptom	Percentages of Patients Reporting Moderate-to-severe Symptoms
	N Stage		T Stage
	N0	N1, N2, N3	T1, T2	T3, T4
	n=264 (46%)	n=316 (54%)	n=325 (60%)	n=212 (40%)
Pain	25	36^a	20	49^a
Fatigue	27	36^a	25	44^a
Distress	30	36	24	46^a
Disturbed sleep	32	39	26	52^a
Sadness	25	30	20	38^a
Drowsiness	21	23	18	31^a
Dry mouth	14	21	12	27^a
Shortness of breath	14	16	10	24^a
Difficulty remembering	14	13	13	16
Lack of appetite	14	20	11	28^a
Numbness or tingling	11	14	8	19^a
Nausea or vomiting	4	7	3	11^a

Significantly different between stages at P<.05.