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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2008 May;6(5):448–455. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2008.0036

Table 5.

Physician Ratings (N = 91) as to Whether Fatigue Is Disease- or Treatment-Related

“I Have a Lack of Energy”
Cancer Type* Predominately
Disease-Related
(%)		 Too Close to
Determine
(%)		 Predominately
Treatment-Related
(%)		 Exclusively
Treatment-Related†
(%)		 Neither Disease- nor
Treatment-Related
(%)
Bladder (n = 10) 0 60 40 0 0
Brain (n = 10) 30 20 50 0 0
Breast (n = 10) 0 60 40 0 0
Colorectal (n = 10) 10 70 10 0 10
Head and neck (n = 11) 0 27 64 9 0
Hepatobiliary (n = 10) 80 20 0 0 0
Kidney (n = 10) 30 60 10 0 0
Lung (n = 10) 60 40 0 0 0
Lymphoma (n = 10) 20 60 20 0 0
Ovarian (n = 10) 10 40 50 0 0
Prostate (n = 11) 45 36 18 0 0
*

Most experts provided input on a single cancer; however, 15 experts provided input on 2 cancer sites and 3 experts provided input on 3.

†

No clinicians rated fatigue as “exclusively disease-related.”