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2. Post-mastectomy pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Post-mastectomy pain syndrome is a chronic neuropathic pain that usually manifests as continuous pain in the arm, axilla, chest wall, and breast region. [3] Pain is most likely to start after surgery, [3] although adjuvant therapy, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, may sometimes cause new symptoms to appear. [4]

3. Lymphedema - Wikipedia

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   Two cycles of laser treatment were found to reduce the volume of the affected arm in approximately one-third of people with post-mastectomy lymphedema at three months post-treatment. [64] [65] A new therapeutic approach involving the drug QBX258 has shown promising results in the treatment of lymphedema.

4. Stewart–Treves syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Angiosarcoma is found to occur in 0.07% to 0.45% of people who survive at least 5 years after a radical mastectomy.Although the majority of Stewart-Treves syndrome-related angiosarcomas are caused by post-mastectomy lymphedema, angiosarcoma development has been linked to persistent lymphedema of any origin.

5. Working Out After A Mastectomy Can Help Patients Heal ... - AOL

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   Here's what doctors and trainers advise post-surgery and during breast cancer recovery. There isn't a lot of guidance around how to exercise after a mastectomy. Here's what doctors and trainers ...

6. Breast surgery - Wikipedia

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   The combined effects of radiation and breast cancer surgery can in particular lead to complications such as breast fibrosis, secondary lymphoedema (which may occur in the arm, the breast or the chest, in particular after axillary lymph node dissection [5] [6]), breast asymmetry, and chronic/recurrent breast cellulitis, each of these having long ...

7. Lymphangiosarcoma - Wikipedia

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   Because of this change in clinical practice lymphedema is now a rarity following breast cancer treatment—and post-mastectomy lymphangiosarcoma is now vanishingly rare. When it occurs following mastectomy it is known as Stewart–Treves syndrome. The pathogenesis of lymphangiosarcoma has not been resolved, however several vague mechanisms have ...