Prevalência de Fadiga em Pacientes com Câncer de Cabeça e Pescoço Submetidos ao Tratamento de Radioquimioterapia: Revisão Sistemática

Introduction: Fatigue is considered a reversible change of biological and psychic functions originated from the organism’s unbalance. In patients with cancer, fatigue usually reported as one most frequent symptoms defined chronic mainly in cases when metastases impair daily life activities significantly. Objective: This work aimed to evaluate prevalence head neck cancer submitted radiochemotherapy treatment. Method: The standardized methodology was PRISMA PICO anagram. LILACS, PubMed, Google Scholar SciELO databases were searched applying descriptors “fatigue”; “cancer”; “prevalence”; “head cancer. Scientific articles English published between 2009 2019 included. Five studies have evaluated isolated occurrence through questionnaire Brief Inventory (BFI) variables collected by interviews utilized Piper Scale. Results: Of 243 patients, 70% showed fatigue. another 13 studies, has been assessed along other questionnaires already validated literature. There significant increase on scores well quality related symptoms, for instance, pain, stress, depression 1,908 interviewed. Conclusion: Fatigue’s population high commonly such sleep disorders, lack appetite, dyspnea, emotional depression.