Best Life: No more pain and swelling! Preventing lymphedema

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — There are more than 3.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. One in five of those will be diagnosed with lymphedema. It’s a painful swelling usually in one or both arms. There’s a new super-microsurgical procedure that may prevent it.

Veda Jackson, breast cancer survivor, picked up crocheting about a year ago. She got needles and yarn and got hooked! It took her mind off her diagnosis.

“I was diagnosed with stage three metastasis, breast cancer because it had spread to my lymph nodes,” Jackson told Ivanhoe.

Jackson was at risk of developing lymphedema after having a mastectomy and 13 lymph nodes removed.