The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of managing lymphedema in breast cancer survivors. A descriptive phenomenological method was used as a guide for developing a bracket ...

A few months after completing targeted radiation treatment for breast cancer ... will develop lymphedema. "It was painful. It was hard to sleep because it just felt like my arm was thumping ...

Breast cancer patients may develop swelling in the arm, called lymphedema, as a complication ... arm and hand for the rest of the 24-hour day. After the month of treatment, these patients wore ...

Lymphedema is a condition that occurs when there is damage to the lymph system, causing a collection of fluid in one or more areas of the body. The swelling can occur in the arm, breast, chest or leg ...

A review was conducted to compare postsurgical outcomes for patients with breast cancer who received rehabilitation nursing with outcomes for those who received traditional nursing.

The incidence of arm lymphedema in almost 15-18% cases of mastectomy and the incidence has fallen after use of surgical ...

During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy ... you may feel a few kinds of sensations in your arm, breast, or chest wall. Examples are tenderness, numbness, and twinges. After your ...

Surgery is part of breast cancer treatment for most people ... Lymphedema in the arm, most often when radiation therapy starts after a lymph node dissection. MSK’s radiation experts do everything ...