What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in People With Cancer?
Publication Name
Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine, Second Edition
Abstract
Dyspnea is a common and disabling symptom experienced by a majority of patients with cancer, especially as disease advances and they approach the end of life. Strategies aimed at reversing anatomical and physiological causes may relieve dyspnea and represent a first target of intervention. When underlying causes cannot be modified, global therapies focused on symptom relief should be enlisted; these also can be employed in conjunction with disease-targeted approaches. This chapter reviews both pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments to be used in dyspnea in patients with cancer.
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First Page
121
Last Page
130