Cytokines correlated to cancer-related fatigue / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common and refractory clinical sympotoms in patients with cancer. Investigators have tried to study the molecular pathogenesis of cancer-related fatigue, and the cytokine has become a research focus. At present, a number of cytokines, including transformation growth factor, tumor necrosis factor, interleukin, proteolytic inducing factors, inflammatory cytokine are proved to be correlated to cancer-related fatigue.