Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2016
No Differences in Symptom Burden Between Colorectal Cancer Patients Receiving Curative versus Palliative Chemotherapy.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Patients with CRC may have multiple cooccurring symptoms as a result of their disease or its treatment. Little is known about potential differences in symptom burden in CRC patients scheduled to receive curative versus palliative chemotherapy (CTX). ⋯ Regardless of the reason for CTX, CRC patients experience a large number of cooccurring symptoms.