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Cancer takes its toll. Those affected have to come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with therapies both physically and mentally. Most people therefore consider fatigue and exhaustion during this time and afterwards to be completely normal. But what can you do if the lack of energy and drive becomes more and more severe and does not improve even with sleep, rest and restorative measures, making it almost impossible to cope with everyday life? Experts refer to this particularly severe form of exhaustion as fatigue, from the French word for tiredness, pronounced “fatieg”. What are the symptoms and causes? How is fatigue diagnosed and what options are there for treating fatigue? 

The Cancer Information Service (KID) therefore invites cancer patients, their relatives and anyone interested in the topic to the online event “Fatigue - what to do about tiredness and exhaustion” on May 20, 2025 from 4 to 6 pm.
 

Programme (this event will be held in German)

4:00 p.m. Welcome 

• Dr. med. Susanne Weg-Remers, Head of the Cancer Information Service, DKFZ

4:05 p.m. What exactly is fatigue and what are the causes?

• Dr. Kerstin Wittenberg, Knowledge Management Working Group, Cancer Information Service, DKFZ
  • Questions from the Chat

4:25 p.m. How can I deal with fatigue and what can alleviate it? - Case studies and contact persons

• Dr. med. Andrea Thekla Petermann-Meyer, Head of the Psychooncology Section, Center for Integrated Oncology, CIO-Aachen, University Hospital RWTH Aachen
  • Questions from the Chat

4:55 p.m. Effectiveness of physical activity for fatigue

• Dr. Martina Schmidt, Department of Exercise, Prevention Research and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT)
  • Questions from the Chat

6:00 p.m. End of the event

Click here to register.

The presentations will be available on the website after the event. 

The Cancer Information Service is a service provided by the German Cancer Research Center for cancer patients, their families and friends, and anyone else seeking advice. Doctors answer all questions about cancer in an understandable and up-to-date manner free of charge. You can reach us by phone at 06221-420 30 40, by email (krebsinformationsdienst(at)dkfz.de) and, as of recently, also via chat (https://www.krebsinformationsdienst.de/chat.php). The website www.krebsinformationsdienst.de also provides reliable information on cancer as well as addresses and links to other quality-assured services.