Table 2.

Frequently Reported Symptoms of Cancer Patients in Hospice/Palliative Care (PC)

Author	Ng	Mercadante	Walsh	Potter	Stromgren
Setting	Hospice	PC	PC	PC	PC
Sample Size	1000	400	100	400	175
Symptom	Percentages of sample reporting the symptom
Pain	49	87	84	64	80
Fatigue	81		69		57
Anorexia	70		66	34	8
Insomnia	23		49	12
Constipation	35	33	52	32	18
Dyspnea	61	28	50	31
Cough	52		38	15
Nausea	30	25	36	29	26
Memory Problems			12		8
Diarrhea		5	8	10

Abbreviations: PC, Palliative Care

Extracted from Mercadante, Casuccio, & Fulfaro, 2000; Ng & von Gunten, 1998; Potter, Hami, Bryan, & Quigley, 2003; Stromgren et al., 2006; Walsh, Donnelly, & Rybicki, 2000