How to Do Arm Lymphedema Exercises
Arm lymphedema (swelling) often happens after lymph nodes removal during breast cancer surgery. Gentle exercise can help reduce swelling caused by lymphedema. Here's how to do the elbow extension exercise. Page 4. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - September 1, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
How to Do Arm Lymphedema Exercises
Arm lymphedema (swelling) can happen after you've had lymph nodes removed during breast cancer surgery. Gentle exercise with free weights can help reduce swelling caused by lymphedema. Here's how to do these arm lymphedema exercises. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - August 26, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
New function for a well-known immune messenger molecule
(ETH Zurich) ETH Zurich Assistant Professor Cornelia Halin and her colleagues have discovered a new function of the well-known messenger protein interleukin-7: It facilitates the drainage of lymph fluid from tissues. In the future, the scientists plan to investigate whether this molecule could be used to prevent or treat lymphedema. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 26, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Spinal cord injury incurred by neck massage - Cheong HS, Hong BY, Ko YA, Lim SH, Kim JS.
Massage is generally accepted as a safe and a widely used modality for various conditions, such as pain, lymphedema, and facial palsy. However, several complications, some with devastating results, have been reported. We introduce a case of a 43-year-old m... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Lymphoma treatment aided by 25% cut in normal calories - animal study
A new experiment in mice suggests that a diet with below-normal calories could help the effectiveness of drug cancer treatment. The team, led by Jean-Ehrland Ricci of the French Institute for Health and Medical Research in France, put mice who had developed lymphoma into two separate groups: those who ate a diet with caloric intake 25% lower than normal, and those who ate a regular diet... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphology/Lymphedema Source Type: news
Innovative technique seeks to prevent lymphedema in breast cancer patients
A team of surgeons and members of the breast cancer program of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is conducting a two-year pilot study of an innovative microsurgery technique coupled with imaging technology to not only prevent lymphedema but also potentially detect and treat it early... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news
One in four cancer survivors suffers serious side-effects, study finds
Call for survivors to receive 'cancer recovery package' of care and support to help them with consequences of treatmentAt least one in four cancer survivors suffers serious medical side-effects of their treatment such as heart failure, osteoporosis and sometimes extreme pain, according to a new report.Women who have had breast cancer are at nearly double the risk of heart failure than those who have not had the disease, while men who have had prostate cancer are at 2.5 times greater risk of developing the brittle bones disease osteoporosis than those who have never had it.Professor Jane Maher, chief medical officer of Macm...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 18, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Tags: News Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Cancer UK news NHS Science Source Type: news
How to Do Arm Lymphedema Exercises
Arm lymphedema (swelling) may happen after lymph nodes removal during breast cancer surgery. Gentle exercise can help reduce swelling caused by lymphedema. Here's how to do the elbow flexion exercise. Page 3. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - July 16, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
How to Do Arm Lymphedema Exercises
Shoulder abduction exercise can help you recover from arm lymphedema. Gentle exercise helps move lymph fluid out of your hand and arm and back into your system. Learn about shoulder abduction and arm lymphedema here. Page 7. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - July 2, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Potential Treatment For Deadly, HIV-Related Blood Cancer Identified
Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a promising new way to treat a rare and aggressive blood cancer most commonly found in people infected with HIV. The USC team shows that a class of drugs called BET bromodomain inhibitors effectively targets primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), a type of cancer for which those drugs were not expected to be effective. "It's a reversal of the paradigm," said Preet Chaudhary, chief of the Nohl Division of Hematology and Blood Diseases at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and principal investigator of the study... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphology/Lymphedema Source Type: news
NICE Final Guidance On Blood Cancer Drug Jakavi™ (ruxolitinib) Delivers Major Setback For Myelofibrosis Patients
The only therapy available for a disease with a clear unmet medical need will not be made available to UK patients Novartis today expressed disappointment at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) decision to publish final guidance not recommending ruxolitinib (INC424, Jakavi™) for the treatment of disease-related splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) or symptoms in adult patients with primary myelofibrosis (also known as chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis), post-polycythaemia vera myelofibrosis or post-essential thrombocythaemia myelofibrosis[i]... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphology/Lymphedema Source Type: news
How to Do Arm Lymphedema Exercises
Arm lymphedema (swelling) is often a result of lymph nodes removal during breast cancer surgery. Gentle exercise can help reduce swelling caused by lymphedema. Here's how to do the ball squeeze exercise. Page 2. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - June 23, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
The Basics of Lymphedema After Breast Cancer
Lymphedema is swelling that occurs due to the accumulation of lymphatic fluid (also called lymph) in an arm, or sometimes a leg. Many people who've undergone treatment for breast cancer worry about developing lymphedema. What are the symptoms of lymphedema to be on the lookout for? Arm yourself with knowledge about who gets lymphedema, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - June 19, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
What is a Compression Sleeve?
What is a compression sleeve? and how does it relate to arm lymphedema? Learn more about compression sleeves and arm lymphedema here. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - June 10, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
ASCO: Fewer Side Effects With Radiotherapy Alone for Some Node-Positive Breast Cancer Patients
A study presented at ASCO shows that axillary radiotherapy results in similar outcomes to axillary lymph node dissection, but halved the incidence of lymphedema. (Source: Cancer Network)
Source: Cancer Network - June 5, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
