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You shouldn’t draw major conclusions about the safety of marijuana amid the recent announcement that federal regulators may reclassify the drug, experts are cautioning.

Learn about medications, surgery, radiation, exercise, and other therapies and strategies for symptom relief from advanced prostate cancer.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is under scrutiny for concealing his prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. But experts say it can be a common coping mechanism.

Nothing prepared Linda C. Johnson of Indianapolis for the fatigue that descended on her after a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in early 2020.

Fatigue doesn’t represent “a day when you’re tired; it’s a couple of weeks or a couple of months when you’re tired,” one doctor said.

Fatigue is a common symptom of many illnesses that beset older adults: heart disease, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, lung disease and kidney disease. Many potential contributors to fatigue can be addressed with treatment. But much of the time, reasons for fatigue can't be explained by an underlying medical condition.

Fatigue is the leading reason for restricted activity in people 70 and older, according to a 2001 study from Yale.

Fatigue is the leading reason for restricted activity in people 70 and older

Persistent fatigue — the feeling of having no energy — can contribute to frailty and affects 40% to 74% of older patients with chronic illness. Yet its causes can be elusive.

Nothing prepared Linda C. Johnson of Indianapolis for the fatigue that descended on her after a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in early 2020.