Sleep disturbances are underappreciated in prostate cancer survivorship
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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The prevalence of sleep disturbances among prostate cancer (PCa) survivors, and extent of urologist involvement in sleep care are not well-studied. METHODS PCa survivors
(_n_ = 167) and urologists (_n_ = 145) were surveyed about sleep disturbances and survivorship care practices. RESULTS Most PCa survivors had sleep disturbances, including 50.9% with poor
sleep quality, 18.0% with clinical/severe insomnia, and 36.5% at high-risk for sleep apnea. Few urologists routinely screened for sleep disturbances, as recommended in national cancer
survivorship guidelines. CONCLUSIONS Optimal PCa survivorship care should incorporate screening for sleep disturbances, addressing comorbid factors affecting sleep and referring to sleep
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NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center Developmental Project Program, which is partially supported by the Cancer Center Support Grant P30CA016087, and the Edward Blank and Sharon Cosloy-Blank Family
Foundation. NG is supported by grant 5T32HS026120-04 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute grant 5UL1TR001445. The
content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency. AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * From SUNY Downstate
Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA Fred Gong * New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA Stacy Loeb, Katherine Siu, Stephanie Orstad, Sameer Thakker, Tatiana Sanchez
Nolasco, Nataliya Byrne & Natasha Gupta * Manhattan Veterans Affairs, New York, NY, USA Stacy Loeb, Katherine Siu, Stephanie Orstad, Tatiana Sanchez Nolasco, Nataliya Byrne & Natasha
Gupta * Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA Akya Myrie * University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Stacey A. Kenfield * Dana- Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA, USA Alicia Morgans * Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Rebecca Robbins * The Capstone College of Nursing, University of Alabama,
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this author inPubMed Google Scholar CONTRIBUTIONS Concept and design: SL, AM, SLO, SAK, AM, RR, PC, GJL, NG. Data collection: SL, KS, TSN, NB. Statistical analysis: KS, NG. Interpretation
of results: All authors. Drafting of paper: FG, SL, KS, AM, NG. Critical revision of paper: All authors. Supervision: SL, NG. Funding Acquisition: SL. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to
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permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Gong, F., Loeb, S., Siu, K. _et al._ Sleep disturbances are underappreciated in prostate cancer survivorship. _Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis_
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