Lifting weights reduces lymphedema symptoms following breast can...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Tue, 08/11/2009 - 22:00

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Breast cancer survivors who lift weights are less likely to experience worsening symptoms of lymphedema, the arm- and hand-swelling condition that plagues many women following surgery for their disease, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research published in the August 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The findings challenge the advice commonly given to lymphedema sufferers, who may worry that weight training or even carrying children or bags of groceries will exacerbate their symptoms.

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