Monday, December 4, 2017

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care - ABC News

Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing — a debilitating condition that gets little attention and has no cure. Desperate, the Wisconsin woman traveled hundreds of miles to seek a delicate operation — replacing under-arm lymph nodes lost in cancer surgery — as a small but growing number of hospitals offer microsurgical attempts at relief from lymphedema that help some patients but not all.....
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/replacing-lymph-nodes-ease-painful-legacy-cancer-care-51402376


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