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Scientific Congress Publications
Supported by Bayer Pharmaceuticals
EMUC 2026
Measuring the impact of fatigue on health-related quality of life in prostate cancer patients in the USA and Germany
- Fatigue has a measurable and consistent negative impact on patients with prostate cancer and their HRQoL Patients with symptoms other than fatigue, with ongoing hormone therapy, and metastatic disease were more likely to have fatigue
- To our knowledge, this is the first and largest cross-sectional study of patients with prostate cancer demonstrating that fatigue has a measurable and consistent negative impact on HRQoLacross three validated questionnaires
- Given the high burden and prevalence of fatigue among patients with prostate cancer, physicians should select treatment strategies associated with a lower burden of fatigue and educate patients on the importance of exercise to minimize the impact on patients’ overall HRQoL