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A study to understand more about breast cancer related lymphoedema

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Other

Details

This study looked at why some women develop a swelling of the arm called lymphoedema, a few months or years after surgery for breast cancer.

Most cases of lymphoedema happen within 3 years of the surgery. Researchers were trying to understand how the drainage of tissue fluid from the arm goes wrong in lymphoedema. And why some women get it but most do not.

Cancer Research UK supported this study.

Recruitment start: 1 February 2011

Recruitment end: 31 December 2013

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Professor PS Mortimer

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust

Last reviewed: 15 May 2017

CRUK internal database number: 7958

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