Super micro-surgery offers new hope for breast cancer patients with lymphedema
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Breast cancer patients with lymphedema in their upper arm experienced reduced fluid in the swollen arm by up to 39 percent after undergoing a super-microsurgical technique known as lymphaticovenular bypass, report researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre...
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