There is increasing evidence of the benefits of exercise after cancer treatment to help reduce the side effects and improve people’s quality of life and survival. This is an important component of the Recovery Package which encourages cancer teams to promote physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle and to help manage the consequences of treatment. This article describes a feasibility study that examined yoga as an intervention after treatment for lung cancer and shows that there were improvements in participants’ overall quality of life and lung function tests.
Cancer Nursing Practice. doi: 10.7748/cnp.2018.e1517
CitationWhite J, Clarke K, Dixon S et al (2018) The effect of yoga on the recovery of patients who have undergone a lung resection for primary lung cancer. Cancer Nursing Practice. doi: 10.7748/cnp.2018.e1517
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestNone declared
Published online: 25 September 2018
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