Research progress on symptom cluster management in patients with breast cancer / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Breast cancer patients experience many symptoms during treatment. In most cases, the symptoms do not appear alone, but several symptoms appear at the same time and form symptoms cluster, which causes severe physical and mental burden on the patient. This paper summarized the study on symptom cluster of breast cancer patients at home and abroad from the perspectives of concept, categories, influencing factors and management, so as to provide basis for future symptom cluster management.