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Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2015 May 15;23(8):2461–2478. doi: 10.1007/s00520-015-2763-0

Table 1.

Search Terms

Database	Search Terms	Yield
PubMed	(biomarkers OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology) AND fatigue AND (neoplasms OR cancer[tiab])	N=6921
	“cancer related fatigue”[ti]
Scopus	(TITLE(biomarkers OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology) AND TITLE(fatigue))	N=3297
	(TITLE(biomarkers OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology) AND ABS(fatigue))
	(ABS(biomarkers OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology) AND TITLE(fatigue))
	(TITLE-ABS-KEY(biomarkers OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY(“cancer related fatigue”))
Embase	‘marker’/exp OR ‘inflammation’/exp OR ‘genetic marker’/exp OR ‘epigenetics’/exp OR ‘immunopathology’/exp OR ‘immunity’/exp OR ‘pathophysiology’/exp OR ‘etiology’/exp AND (‘fatigue’/exp/mj OR ‘cancer fatigue’/exp/mj) AND ‘neoplasm’/exp	N=681
CINAHL	(MH “Biological Markers+”) OR “biomarkers” OR biomarker OR markers OR marker OR inflammatory OR inflammation OR genetics OR genetic OR epigenetics OR epigenetic OR immune OR immunogenomic OR pathophysiology OR etiology	N=230
	(MH “Cancer Fatigue”) OR “cancer related fatigue”