Arm lymphoedema after breast cancer
A partir d'une revue systématique de la littérature publiée entre 2000 et 2012 (72 études), cette méta-analyse évalue l'incidence de lymphœdème unilatéral du bras après un cancer du sein et identifie les facteurs de risque associés
Breast-cancer-related lymphoedema is a substantial problem in women after they have undergone breast cancer treatment. Despite the introduction of breast-conserving surgery and minimal lymphatic intervention (eg, sentinel-lymph-node biopsy [SLNB ] ), incidence rates remain disappointingly high. In The Lancet Oncology , Tracey DiSipio and colleagues 1 report the findings of their systematic review and meta-analysis in which they shown that roughly one in five women with breast cancer will develop arm...
The Lancet Oncology 2013