Weightlifting Slashes Lymphedema Risk After Breast Cancer Treatment

Weightlifting may play a key role in preventing the painful limb-swelling condition lymphedema that often follows breast cancer treatment. Studies have shown that as many as 47 percent of breast cancer patients who have multiple lymph nodes removed during their surgery later develop lymphedema.Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH, associate professor of epidemiology in biostatistics and epidemiology and