Breast cancer-related lymphoedema risk reduction advice: A challenge for health professionals

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 621-628

  Nielsen, Ilsa ^a   Gordon, Susan ^a   Selby, Anita ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymphedema; Lymphoedema; Risk; Risk reduction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BENZOPYRONE DERIVATIVE; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HANDEDNESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TRAVEL; VEIN PUNCTURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 53649099338     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2007.11.002     Document Type: Review

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