NCT04766489

Evaluation of the Treatment Response in Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema

Evaluation of the Treatment Response in Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema After Mastectomy Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ege University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the effects of the treatment for breast cancer lymphedema. After taking a detailed history and giving a physical examination, breast cancer related lymphedema patients(n:30) will be informed and will be given Complete Decongestive Therapy, which includes decongestive exercises, manual lymphatic drainage, compression therapy(either through short stretch bandaging and/or pneumatic device) and exercise. Patients will be evaluated with limb volume, lymphedema index acquired through bioimpedance device, QuickDASH for upper extremity function, hand dynamometer for upper extremity grip strength and CLUE(Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema of the Upper Extremity standardized clinical evaluation tool) scoring for lymphedema before and after the intervention. The values will be compared in order to show whether there are significant differences between before and after scores, and whether CLUE score is correlated with the other indicators of breast cancer related lymphedema.

Conditions

• Lymphedema of Upper Limb
• Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer Lymphedema

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Complete Decongtestive Therapy	Patients will be given complete decongestive therapy, which includes decongestive exercises, manual lymphatic drainage, compression therapy(either through short stretch bandaging and/or pneumatic device) and exercise, for 5 days a week and for a mean of 20 sessions. Each session will be of 1 hour duration for compressive therapies(Short stretch bandages will be left on for 23 hours a day), 30 minutes of manual lymphatic drainage, and decongestive exercises 3 times a day for 15 minutes each time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-11
• Primary completion: 2019-12-11
• Completion: 2019-12-11
• First posted: 2021-02-23
• Last updated: 2021-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)