Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2019

PULMONARY EFFECTS ON CANCER PATIENTS – PRELIMINARY STUDY

Feby Sabu

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Introduction : For the production of voice respiratory, articulatory, resonatory, phonatory, prosody form the basic systems. Any drugs administered can have direct impact on these systems so in the case of introduction of chemotherapy. Method: Chemotherapy participants of head and neck cancer were included in the study. The instrument used was aerophone for finding pulmonary functions in these individuals. Paired t test was used for statistical analysis. Result and discussion : Variances were observed in only few measures whereas other factors remained unchanged indicating limited effect of chemotherapy drugs on the system. Conclusion: Being a initiating study, it gives more insights to professionals and practitioners to deal with head and neck cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and to work with them efficiently

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

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PULMONARY EFFECTS ON CANCER PATIENTS‾PRELIMINARY STUDY, Feby Sabu INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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