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Risk factors of arm lymphedema in breast cancer patients
1Danish Cancer Society, Department of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital.
Acta Oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
|September 15, 2000
Abstract:
Chronic lymphedema is a life-long, potential complication of axillary treatment for breast cancer patients. In this article we focus on risk factors in the development of arm lymphedema and also discuss definition, type and stage, and incidence of arm edema.