Wrestling bulging arms after breast cancer. Dec. 29, 2008, 5:08 PM EST / Source: The Associated Press.

Some women experience "phantom" pain and other sensations after a mastectomy as if the breast had never been removed. Similar to feelings experienced by some leg or arm amputees, these sensations ...

Aug. 13, 2009— -- For decades, women who underwent a mastectomy were told they could not do much lifting or they might risk developing a painful arm swelling condition called lymphedema.

The debilitating arm and shoulder disability and pain that some women who have had breast cancer surgery experience as a side effect of their surgery can be reduced by following a physiotherapy-led ...

FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Arm and shoulder pain are common for women after breast cancer surgery, and beginning a supervised exercise program soon afterwards can go a long way to ...

A total of 38 survivors of breast cancer were evaluated. The arm on the cancer-affected side of the body was associated with lower fat mass and BMD, compared with the unaffected arm (P ≤.05 for ...

Post-Mastectomy Swelling of the Arm. Review of the Literature and Preliminary Report of 50 Cases. M E A El-Kharadly & A A Enein British Journal of Cancer volume 19, pages 30–38 (1965)Cite this ...