• Ivan H C Wu, Diwakar D Balachandran, Saadia A Faiz, Lara Bashoura, Carmen P Escalante, and Ellen F Manzullo.
• Departments of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (I.H.C.W.), Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: ihwu@mdanderson.org.
• J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Jan 1; 63 (1): e1e8e1-e8.

ContextCancer patients often experience cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and sleep disturbances due to cancer and cancer treatment, and symptoms can persist long after treatment. Despite these common occurrences, few studies simultaneously characterize CRF and sleep architecture among cancer patients.ObjectivesThe objective was to characterize CRF and the sleep architecture of patients seen in a CRF clinic and sleep clinic at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.MethodsCRF Clinic medical records were retrospectively reviewed from September 1, 2006, to September 30, 2010, for self-reported performance status, fatigue, pain, sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, and sleepiness (n = 219). Polysomnography results were recorded for those referred for additional sleep consultation (n = 39).ResultsNotably, patients often reported fatigue, sleep disturbance, excessive daytime sleepiness, and a majority of patients referred for a sleep consultation were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (n = 33).ConclusionThe results highlight the promise of an interdisciplinary collaboration between dedicated a CRF clinic and sleep clinic to conduct effective assessments to identify treatable CRF and sleep disorders.Copyright © 2021 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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