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A mastectomy may include removal of a number of lymph nodes and the direct consequence is the risk of lymphedema, a condition that occurs when lymph fluid does not circulate properly.
It is important to highlight that having gone through a lymphadenectomy does not necessarily mean you will have lymphedema. Although lymphedema is often associated with breast cancer and swelling in the arm, this disorder can occur in any kind of tumour or location where lymph nodes have been removed.
In breast cancer most often it affects the arm, due to the location of the extracted nodes, and after a gynaecological cancer, lymphoma or melanoma, it is more common in the lower limbs.
