Clinical Significance of the Baseline Six-Minute Walk Test in Patients With Early-Stage Lung Cancer and COPD: Correlations With Pulmonary Function, COPD Severity, Cognitive Function, and Quality of Life.
AIMS/BACKGROUND Driven by global industrialization and a rapidly aging population, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) increasingly co-occur, posing complex challenges for clinical management. Although the six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a well-established tool for assessing functional status in...