Randomized trial of physical activity on quality of life and lung cancer biomarkers in patients with advanced stage lung cancer: a pilot study

BC Bade, G Gan, F Li, L Lu, L Tanoue, GA Silvestri… - BMC cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Lung cancer survivors need more options to improve quality of life (QoL). It is
unclear to what extent patients with advanced stage disease are willing to participate in …

Integrating palliative care into the care of patients with advanced lung cancer

JM Kapo, KM Akgün - The Cancer Journal, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death due to malignancy. Although lung cancer
mortality has been decreasing in recent years, it remains substantially higher than other …

Dyspnea in children with life-threatening and life-limiting complex chronic conditions

L Pieper, B Zernikow, R Drake, M Frosch… - Journal of Palliative …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Background: Dyspnea is one of the most frequent symptoms in children with complex
chronic conditions (CCC) requiring palliative care. Although it is a subject of high …

Characteristics of episodic breathlessness as reported by patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer: results of a descriptive …

V Weingärtner, C Scheve, V Gerdes… - Palliative …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Episodic breathlessness is one form of refractory breathlessness. Better
understanding of the symptom is necessary for effective management. Aim: The aim was to …

Symptoms and needs of patients with advanced lung cancer: early prevalence assessment

J Kuon, J Vogt, A Mehnert, B Alt-Epping… - Oncology research and …, 2019 - karger.com
Background: Little is known on symptom burden, psychosocial needs, and perception of
prognosis in advanced lung cancer patients at the time of diagnosis, although early …

“I can't get it into my head that I have cancer…”—A qualitative interview study on needs of patients with lung cancer

H Stanze, N Schneider, F Nauck, G Marx - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Caring for patients with advanced lung cancer is of high relevance in different
clinical settings. Lung cancer is among the most common causes of death from malignant …

Sequential occurrence of dyspnea at the end of life in palliative care, according to the underlying cancer

F Guirimand, M Sahut d'izarn, L Laporte… - Cancer …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Dyspnea is a symptom that severely affects the quality of life of terminally ill patients. Its
frequency differs considerably between studies. We aimed to characterize the frequency of …

Specialist palliative care until the very end of life-reports of family caregivers and the multiprofessional team

A Ullrich, S Goldbach, W Hollburg, B Wagener… - BMC Palliative Care, 2023 - Springer
Background Specialist palliative care (SPC) includes care for incurably ill patients and their
family caregivers at home or on a palliative care ward until the very end of life. However, in …

Trends and predictors of Quality of Life in lung cancer survivors

BC Bade, J Zhao, F Li, L Tanoue, H Lazowski… - Lung Cancer, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) is often impaired in lung cancer survivors.
To inform personalized survivorship care, we identified associations between HR-QoL …

The lung cancer patient, the pneumologist and palliative care: a developing alliance

T Blum, N Schönfeld - European Respiratory Journal, 2014 - publications.ersnet.org
Considerable evidence is now available on the value of palliative care for lung cancer
patients in all stages and at all times during the course of the disease. However …