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Arm swelling after breast cancer surgery is common and lifelong once established, but if caught early with simple measurements and treated with a sleeve, most cases can be prevented from becoming permanent.
Breast cancer-related lymphoedema affects a large minority of patients who have axillary surgery or radiotherapy. Prospective surveillance with bioimpedance spectroscopy or arm-volume measurement, and early compression when subclinical change is detected, reduced progression to chronic lymphoedema substantially in a randomised trial (PREVENT). Surveillance is rarely implemented. Making it a standard component of breast cancer follow-up is inexpensive.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued, Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Lymphoedema: catching it early, and the operations for it, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued, HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer.
Shares Supportive care and survivorship roadmap: making treatment bearable → proving it extends life → caring for tens of millions afterwards, Survivorship and late effects are neglected.
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