Try Compression Sleeves First for Early Lymphedema (breast)

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More Evidence to Start Conservatively
These results add to the mounting evidence against CDT as a first-line treatment for early lymphedema, write Sara H. Javid, MD, and Benjamin O. Anderson, MD, both from the University of Washington in Seattle, in an accompanying editorial.
However, medical insurers should not take these results to mean that CDT is of no value and use them to justify not paying for the treatment, Dr. Anderson emphasized in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
"That is a very specific concern of mine, and is addressed in the editorial," he said......