Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2017
Respiratory symptoms, sleep, and quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
Maintenance of quality of life and symptom management are important in lung cancer therapy. To the author's knowledge, the interplay of respiratory symptoms and sleep disturbance in affecting quality of life in advanced lung cancer remains unexamined. ⋯ Respiratory symptoms and sleep disturbance were common in the advanced lung cancer patients and had a negative impact on their quality of life; sleep disturbance may mediate the relationship between respiratory symptoms and quality of life.