Whitworth, P.W. and A. Cooper, Reducing chronic breast cancer-related lymphedema utilizing a program of prospective surveillance with bioimpedance spectroscopy. Breast J, 2018. 24(1): p. 62-65.
Whitworth, P.W. and A. Cooper
Reducing chronic breast cancer-related lymphedema utilizing a program of prospective surveillance with bioimpedance spectroscopy.
In summary, prospective surveillance of breast cancer patients (most of whom were considered high risk) for the development of BCRL using BIS permitted the detection and simple pre-emptive management of subclinical disease resulting in a very low rate of chronic lymphedema compared to the established, expected range. These findings (which represent the largest group of patients monitored in a structured, program for early detection of BCRL using BIS) support the cost-effective allocation of resources for prospective, BIS assisted, BCRL surveillance within guidelines-based breast cancer survivorship programs. For women at risk for BCRL, this protocol represents a useful option to meet NCCN guidelines for the education, monitoring and treatment of BCRL.
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