New Study Sez Lympho-ladies Need More Medical Care

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cookiegal
cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
edited June 2014 in Lymphedema
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/852576140048867C852577FA0078E532
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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited December 2010

    After the study "showing" that MLD doesn't work--I'll post it later--this is SO encouraging.

    Thank you!

    Kira

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited December 2010

    kira it was my impression that the other study showed it didn't work in preventing the development on LE, not the ongoing treatment?

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited December 2010

    Cookie, you're right--it didn't work to prevent LE--which is not how it's intended to be used. There also two studies out of Canada trying to discredit MLD in the acute CDT phase--as useless and expensive, and time consuming. Lousy studies.

    Kira

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  • BoobsinaBox
    BoobsinaBox Member Posts: 550
    edited December 2010

    That new report is VERY encouraging.  thanks for posting it, Cookie.

    Dawn 

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited December 2010

    For what it's worth my ID Doctor says he has often wondered why there was not more MD's specialising specialty in LE.

    If early pt, or a scan, or supplements can prevent or lessen severity, any major breast center should have someone to adress those concerns.

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited December 2010

    Cookie, wouldn't that be ideal? Too bad many major breast centers adopt the party line "none of our patients get LE!"

    In Boston: Dana Farber/Brigham and Womens have taken the approach that LE is a reportable diagnosis=error, while Mass General has a protocol to measure all women with the perometer pre-op and at all post-op visits, with early referral to LE therapy.

    Wouldn't it be nice if the second approach was the norm?

    I think any surgeon who does a breast fellowship should have an obligation to be trained in LE, but that's just my vote.

    There are few rehab doctors around--but in Canada, Anna Tower, the head of LE at McGill, is a family doctor who took a LE training course and became the head of LE.

    There is a need--I agree with your ID doctor.

    Kira

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  • BoobsinaBox
    BoobsinaBox Member Posts: 550
    edited December 2010

    Kira, 

    It's not just your vote.   You would get lots of people voting with you, if we only had a vote!

    Dawn 

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  • inspiewriter
    inspiewriter Member Posts: 876
    edited December 2010

    Thanks for sharing this.

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  • mrsnjband
    mrsnjband Member Posts: 1,409
    edited December 2010

    If you have LE then you already know we are more apt to get infections. 

    I just had a bout of cellulitus and it still hasn't completely cleared up, but it is getting better slowly. The MLD helps to get rid of some of the infection.

    NJ

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