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Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR)
With increasing breast cancer survival rates, one of our contemporary challenges is to improve the quality of life of survivors. Lymphedema affects quality of life on physical, psychological, social and economic levels; however, prevention of lymphedema lags behind the progress seen in other areas o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36826080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol30020119 |
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author | Deban, Melina McKinnon, J. Gregory Temple-Oberle, Claire |
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description | With increasing breast cancer survival rates, one of our contemporary challenges is to improve the quality of life of survivors. Lymphedema affects quality of life on physical, psychological, social and economic levels; however, prevention of lymphedema lags behind the progress seen in other areas of survivorship such as breast reconstruction and fertility preservation. Immediate lymphatic reconstruction (ILR) is a proactive approach to try to prevent lymphedema. We describe in this article essential aspects of the elaboration of an ILR program. The Calgary experience is reviewed with specific focus on team building, technique, operating room logistics and patient follow-up, all viewed through research and education lenses. |
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spelling | pubmed-99555712023-02-25 Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) Deban, Melina McKinnon, J. Gregory Temple-Oberle, Claire Curr Oncol Article With increasing breast cancer survival rates, one of our contemporary challenges is to improve the quality of life of survivors. Lymphedema affects quality of life on physical, psychological, social and economic levels; however, prevention of lymphedema lags behind the progress seen in other areas of survivorship such as breast reconstruction and fertility preservation. Immediate lymphatic reconstruction (ILR) is a proactive approach to try to prevent lymphedema. We describe in this article essential aspects of the elaboration of an ILR program. The Calgary experience is reviewed with specific focus on team building, technique, operating room logistics and patient follow-up, all viewed through research and education lenses. MDPI 2023-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9955571/ /pubmed/36826080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol30020119 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Deban, Melina McKinnon, J. Gregory Temple-Oberle, Claire Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title | Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title_full | Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title_fullStr | Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title_full_unstemmed | Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title_short | Mitigating Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema—A Calgary Program for Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) |
title_sort | mitigating breast-cancer-related lymphedema—a calgary program for immediate lymphatic reconstruction (ilr) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36826080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol30020119 |
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