Dyspnoea in Advanced Disease

Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book is concerned with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters from an international group of experts on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom and, when it is inevitable, to die as comfortably and peacefully as possible.