Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Home-Based Exercise Training Program Before Lung Resection Surgery

BACKGROUND: Patients with lung cancer often experience a reduction in exercise tolerance, muscle weakness and decreased quality of life. Although the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation programs is well recognized in other forms of cancers and in many pulmonary diseases, few researchers have s...

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Main Authors: Valérie Coats, François Maltais, Sébastien Simard, Éric Fréchette, Lise Tremblay, Fernanda Ribeiro, Didier Saey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/291059
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