Symptom associations during early recovery after pancreatic cancer surgery: an exploratory cross-sectional network analysis
Ningning Xia, Neng Shi, Yuan song, Yi Miao, Han Yan · 2026
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Ningning Xia and colleagues map how symptoms cluster in the first week after pancreatic cancer surgery. The operation is among the hardest in cancer care, and patients wake to a crowd of complaints at once. Their 2026 study asked 213 patients on day seven to rate 22 symptoms on a standard inventory. The team then drew a network showing which symptoms travel together and which sit at the web's center.
Seventeen symptoms touched more than three in ten patients. Lost appetite, broken sleep, distress, pain, and fatigue were the most common, and lost appetite, vomiting, and fatigue cut deepest. In the network, vomiting sat at the very center, with distress and sweating close behind, while swelling, fatigue, and irritability bridged between clusters. The authors suggest that easing a central symptom like vomiting might calm several neighbors at once.
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| CREATOR | Ningning Xia, Neng Shi, Yuan song, Yi Miao, Han Yan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36121 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |