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Aged 51-60
Interview LC33  

Interview LC33

Age at Interview: 60
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 57
Background: Managing director of a company (part time), divorced, 2 children.
Brief outline:Non-small cell lung cancer diagnosed in 2000 followed by lobectomy (lower lobes of right lung removed) October 2000, then radiotherapy from outside the chest to lung in 2001.


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He found physiotherapy and breathing exercises provided by a hospice extremely beneficial.

 



So the clinic helped you to breathe better?

Oh enormously yes. I can't remember, it's so long ago now I can't remember the things she [the physiotherapist] taught me but most certainly it's become second nature. But the one thing you must never ever do is take a deep breath like that and the secret is control of your exhalation.

Breathing out?

If you breathe out controlled you will breathe in controlled and if you get short of breath don't go (pants) because you're wasting half the breath that you're taking in. You've just got to control it and slow down. It's not easy but nevertheless it works.

What else do they teach you in the breathlessness clinic?

That's it. But it was over a protracted period of, and you have to do the exercises with them and, and you do climb stairs with them and walk around the, the hospice. And I found it extremely beneficial.
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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