Lymphedema risk after breast cancer treatment reduced with weightlifting
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 14:02
in Health & Medicine
Weightlifting may play a key role in a program to prevent the painful limb-swelling condition lymphedema following breast cancer treatment, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Combined with the teams previous findings that the exercise limits a worsening of symptoms among women who already have lymphedema, the new data cements the reversal of long-running advice that breast cancer survivors should avoid lifting anything heavier than five pounds after they finish treatment. The research results will be presented today at the 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and published online concurrently in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
