The now 81-year-old breast cancer survivor quickly realized that she, like one-third of all cancer patients, would now be living with a condition called lymphedema. “They had touched on this ...

When a woman has breast cancer, her treatment may include a mastectomy with lymph node removal along with radiation therapy.

With regard to the breast cancer survivors' experience of managing lymphedema, 4 revelatory intentions were developed to describe the experience. Intentions were viewed as breast cancer survivors ...

but its absence does not rule out lymphedema. Usually, three severity grades are differentiated in the Stemmer sign (3,4): barely pronounced (stage I) equals a skin fold width of 0.5–1 cm ...