Primary Objective: To determine whether early intervention (with garment sleeve and gauntlet) in patients with pre-clinical lymphedema can halt the progression of lymphedema.
Secondary Objectives:To evaluate whether bioimpedance is an accurate, reliable method to measure pre-clinical and clinical lymphedema.
Tertiary Objective: To determine whether bioimpedance analysis is better than the gold standard of volume displacement to measure lymphedema.
Age
18–any
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
are female
have operable, early stage breast cancer stage 0 - IIIA
undergo axillary evaluation with either sentinel lymph node biopsy or axillary lymph node dissection
are aged \> 18 years of age at the date of enrollment
are willing to sign an informed consent form
You may not be if
are male
have had a bilateral axillary surgery
do not undergo axillary evaluation
are a minor
cannot consider the issues involved in making an informed and autonomous decision.
Clareo Health | The Use of Bioimpedance to Determine Pre-Clinical Lymphedema in the Post-Operative Breast Cancer Patient
