Treating breathlessness in lung cancer patients: The potential of breathing training

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 241-243

  Johnson, Miriam J ^a   Currow, David C ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SELF CARE; THORAX PAIN; BREATHING EXERCISE; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREATHING EXERCISES; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84960349744     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17476348.2016.1146596     Document Type: Editorial

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