Sleep disturbances among cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated sleep disturbances among cancer survivors compared to similarly aged women without cancer history.

Methods

We identified 2067 women with a history of cancer other than breast or non-melanoma skin cancer at enrollment in the Sister Study, a US-wide cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer. Cancer survivors were matched with up to 5 cancer-free women (N = 9717) on age at enrollment. An index age (for covariate classification) was defined as the age at cancer diagnosis for survivors and the same age for their matched comparators. Sleep disturbances included duration, sleep medication usage, insomnia symptoms, long sleep-latency onset (≥30 min to fall asleep), frequent night awakenings (waking ≥3/night, ≥ 3 times/week), frequent napping (≥ 3

SUBMITTER: Yarosh RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10873004 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature