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Dr. Sheri teaches breast cancer survivors how to LIVE Today,
even with LYMPHEDEMA!
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Cancer patients and survivors, you don’t have to succumb to this life-long debilitating condition. Ask your doctors about a Lymphedema Prevention Program at their institutions. Be proactive in your survivorship. Don’t allow one disease cancer, to cause another disease, lymphedema which can be with you for the rest of your life even after your cancer is considered cured
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Lymphedema affects approximately 10 million Americans – more than muscular dystrophy, ALS, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and AIDS combined; and hundreds of millions worldwide.
1 Minorities, in particular, suffer the effects of healthcare disparities in treatment, post-operative care, 2 and ability to pay for services. |
Patients with lymphedema have significantly decreased quality of life because of persistent pain, recurrent infections, and swelling that can progress to gigantic proportion and gross disfigurement. Lymphedema has no cure.
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Treatment is most effective using compression garments, which minimize swelling and control pain. Most over-the-counter compression garments don’t fit properly and are uncomfortable, unattractive, and unaffordable …
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