More than half of the patients with breast cancer who took part in an education-only or exercise-based intervention program remained lymphedema free 18 months following surgery to remove one or more ...

Q. I am now dealing with lymphedema following breast-cancer surgery. What exercises can I do? What else would help? - PACIFICA, CALIF. A. The lymphatic system, which works closely with the circulatory ...

When you start feeling under the weather, you might reach to the sides of your neck (just like your parents used to) to see if you have inflamed lymph nodes. Even if you know nothing else about the ...

Lymphedema can develop as a result of removing or destroying lymph nodes during surgery or radiation, causing arm heaviness and swelling, but research shows that exercise, lymph drainage, compression ...

When my twin sister got the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the end of December, she kept noting that her armpit felt swollen. It was similar to the soreness experienced with an ...