Response to “Obesity is a Pulmonary Function Confounder”
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is pulmonary function test insensitive to possible pulmonary complications after tangential radiotherapy of breast cancer?
background: pulmonary complications of radiation to breast are inevitable, while its incidence and severity are not clear. one of the methods to assess pulmonary complications is spirometry. the influence of radiotherapy on pulmonary function test and the factors affecting it have been assessed in this study. methods: breast cancer patients with stage ii and iii (based on tnm staging), underwen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1076-2752,1536-5948
DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000002228