Debra L. Barton, RN, PhD, is an associate professor of oncology and a nurse administrator in the department of nursing at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and lead author of a study on ginseng and cancer-related fatigue presented at the 2012 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Throughout her cancer surgery and chemotherapy, a friend stayed staunchly upbeat. But one side effect really bothered her—the unrelenting fatigue.…
