End of life experience of symptom cluster and their management in Hong Kong Chinese patients with lung cancer who receive palliative radiotherapy

Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 361-368

  Chan, Carmen W H ^a,b   Chair, S Y ^a   Chui, Y Y ^a  

^a Chinese University of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Breathlessness; End of life care; Fatigue; Lung neoplasms; Palliative radiotherapy; Psychoeducational intervention; Symptom cluster

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HERBACEOUS AGENT; OPIATE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; STEROID;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY DISORDER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHINESE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONALITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MOTOR COORDINATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; REST; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THORACOCENTESIS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 67449101553     PISSN: 10093419     EISSN: 19996187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2009.05.018     Document Type: Review

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