What Is Cancer Fatigue?

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Cancer fatigue is more than just being tired. All of us get tired, some of us get too tired too often, but cancer fatigue is a huge amount of tiredness that comes on and can't be shaken. No amount of sleep actually improves cancer fatigue. In fact over sleeping probably makes cancer fatigue worse, so you feel ladden, people often describe that they want to do things but they just can't and the best answer joke these days is not one but three things and a combination of good nutrition, good exercise and good rest.

It comes to intuitive sometimes you need to stay active to become less fatigued but actually it's really, really important because our study shows that people who are completely solitary get more fatigue than others.