RESULTS: Four hundred patients were referred with a diagnosis of “lymphedema”; 70% were female and 30% were children. Lymphedema was confirmed in 73% of the cohort: primary (56%) and secondary (44%). Twenty-seven percent of patients labeled with “lymphedema” had another condition. Before referral, only 4% of the cohort underwent lymphoscintigraphy (the gold standard diagnostic test for lymphede...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors for lymphedema after breast cancer surgery. DESIGN Multisite case-control study. SETTING Lymphedema clinics in the upper midwestern region of the United States. SAMPLE 94 patients with lymphedema and 94 controls without lymphedema, matched on type of axillary surgery and surgery date. METHODS The Measure of Arm Symptom Survey, a patient-comple...

Lymphedema is the chronic enlargement of tissue due to inadequate lymphatic function. Diagnosis is made by history and physical examination and confirmed with lymphoscintigraphy. The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of lymphoscintigraphy for the diagnosis of lymphedema and to determine characteristics of patients with false-negative tests. METHODS Individuals referred to our l...

INTRODUCTION Secondary lymphedema following cancer therapy is a frequent, often painful, quality of life disturbing condition, reducing the patients' mobility and predisposing them to complications, e.g. infections and malignancies. The critical aspect of lymphedema therapy is to start as soon as possible to prevent the irreversible tissue damage. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a retrospec...

OBJECTIVE To support the establishment of lymphedema education plans and the actual practice of education by investigating the current lymphedema awareness status of Korean breast cancer patients. METHODS cross-sectional population survey was conducted in 116 breast cancer patients in the Busan-Gyeongnam area. The survey included questions regarding demographic characteristics, breast cancer-...

Breast cancer-related lymphedema is a syndrome of abnormal swelling coupled with multiple symptoms resulting from obstruction or disruption of the lymphatic system associated with cancer treatment. Research has demonstrated that with increased number of symptoms reported, breast cancer survivors' limb volume increased. Lymphedema symptoms in the affected limb may indicate a latent stage of lymp...

Currently, there is a lack of data related to differences in symptoms and infection across different types and anatomical sites of lymphedema. The objective of this study was to examine differences in symptoms and infection status among individuals with lymphedema of the upper or lower extremities. The National Lymphedema Network initiated an online survey of self-report lymphedema data from Ma...

Background: T-helper cells play an essential role in the progression of lymphedema. This study aimed to explore biological significance cell-associated genes (THAGs) a mouse tail model lymphedema by RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with the presence of secondary external and internal lymphedema in patients with head-and-neck cancer (HNC). METHODS AND MATERIALS The sample included 81 patients ≥3 months after HNC treatment. Physical and endoscopic examinations were conducted to determine if participants had external, internal, and/or combined head-and-nec...

The goal of our study was to determine clinical characteristics of women cancer survivors treated for secondary lymphedema, the time from cancer treatment to the development of lymphedema, and the effect of therapy on reduction of lymphedema and occurrence of erysipelas. We performed a retrospective study of women with secondary lymphedema after breast cancer (BR) and gynecological (cervical, u...