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19941224

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
Lung cancer is the most common deadly malignancy in the United States. It is estimated that 219,440 men and women in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer and 159,390 will die of lung cancer in 2009. The overall 5-year survival rate is 15.6%; however, survival rates are much higher (52.6%) for patients who are diagnosed when the cancer is confined to the primary site. Unfortunately, a minority of patients (15%) are diagnosed at this stage. Although the most effective treatment for lung cancer is surgical resection, many patients have significant underlying chronic lung disease as well as other comorbidities, which may increase perioperative risk and possibly exclude them from undergoing surgery. Preoperative assessment is essential for proper risk stratification, but there are important questions that remain to be answered as to (1) whether preoperative or postoperative pulmonary rehabilitation can result in less perioperative morbidity and mortality, (2) whether the institution of preoperative pulmonary rehabilitation can allow more patients to undergo potentially curative surgical resection, and (3) whether pulmonary rehabilitation can play a role in those patients not eligible for surgery.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1098-9048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
30
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
670-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of pulmonary rehabilitation in the lung cancer patient.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Linda_Nici@brown.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review