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Financial Assistance for Compression Garments

8th NLN Conference, August 27-31, 2008, San Diego CA

Groundbreaking Medicare Decision:
Compression Garments are Prosthetic Devices!

New Book: 4th ed, Lymphedema: Diagnosis and Therapy, H. Weissleder

For Professionals: NLN Research Survey

Updated NLN Online Patient Questionnaire

NLN Position Papers: Risk Reduction, Treatment, Exercise, Air Travel, Training

Seeking Patients: Breast Cancer Survivor Studies

Studies of Breast Cancer Survivors

University of California, San Francisco

The School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco is looking for breast cancer survivors with or without lymphedema who have completed active treatment (even as long as 20 years ago) who had treatment with surgery and/or radiation therapy or chemotherapy for their research study: Impact of Lymphedema on Local and Overall Functioning, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing, National Institutes of Health. No: 1321 NR0101282. Your participation (in one testing session only) will provide valuable information to help understand the impact of lymphedema on breast cancer survivors. If you would like to find out more about this study click here or call (415) 476-6975 and leave your telephone number and the study coordinator will call you back.

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville Tennessee is seeking breast cancer survivors with lymphedema for an American Cancer Society (Grant # MRSG-07-012-01) funded intervention study: "Coping with Lymphedema After Breast Cancer". This study will examine the influence of expressive writing upon physical and emotional symptoms and quality of life in breast cancer survivors with lymphedema. To be in this study, you should be willing to come to Vanderbilt University one time or agree to be seen (if you live within 90 miles of Nashville, Tennessee) in your own home or another private setting convenient to you. The intervention and all follow-up activities can be done on-line or with pen and paper using the U.S. mail. If you would like to find out more about this study click here or call (615) 322-8699. If we aren't in the office to personally answer your call please leave your telephone number and a member of the study team will call you back.

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