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January 22, 2009Journal of Clinical Oncology

Evaluation of Screening Instruments for Cancer-Related Fatigue Syndrome in Breast Cancer Survivors

Susanna B. Alexander Ollie Minton Patrick Stone

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Abstract

The BFS and FACT-F cutoff scores can be used to identify breast cancer survivors at higher risk of clinically significant ongoing post treatment fatigue. Neither scale can be used as a diagnostic instrument for CRFS.

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Alexander et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d702c7733a2b54c8aa8877 https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2008.19.1668

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