Kaye-Maree Hollingsworth was struggling to take a deep breath as her chronic lung disease worsened. Her unlikely relief? Crooning along to jazz standards.

She found singing relieved her symptoms and improved her quality of life while managing a terminal lung condition .

Meeting on a video call each week, a group of lung disease patients sang their hearts out for medical research, with Elvis, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Neil Diamond hits on regular rotation.

Mrs Hollingsworth, 68, from Warrnambool in southwest Victoria, loved belting out Sweet Caroline with the group, but said her own tastes leaned local.

"I'm a bit of a Savage Garden fanatic," she said.

The singing treatment was part of a 12-week randomised-controlled trial led by Professor Natasha Smallwood of Monash Universi

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