Change in pulmonary function and cardiorespiratory fitness following chemotherapy in testicular cancer patients - a pilot study

Conclusions: There was a substantial reduction in VO2max after BEP corresponding to three decades of physiological aging. This reduction may reflect a decrease in the patients’ cardiac function and oxygen carrying capacity, and not to reduced DLco.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 6, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Edvardsen, E., Larsen, K.-O., Fossa, S. D., Ikdahl, T., Loge, J. H., Thorsen, L. Tags: Clinical Respiratory Physiology, Exercise and Functional Imaging Source Type: research