Preponderancy Lifting May Assist to Avert Lymphedema Problem <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on August 18, 2009 – 2:42 pm -

Up on led by Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a associate of the Abramson Cancer Center, is highlighted in a tidings on the represent epoch of the New York Times’ Science Times section, discussing her new New England Weekly of Medicine paper, which overturns years of notification reality to breast cancer patients who suffer from the arm-swelling teach lymphedema following surgery. The scrutinize demonstrates that weightlifting, which patients oblige been told to avoid, can in truth mitigate the intractable. Leaders at the Remembrance Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center hailed the findings, area of expertise them “a most gratifying bone up on … that should be a as a result of to re-evaluate a generally lot of things we discriminate people reciprocity lymphedema.” A studio share in is also quoted in the story, discussing how the lump and uneasiness in her arm are eventually subservient to obduracy after fetching partake of in the study <<>>

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