Weight lifting in women with breast-cancer-related lymphedema.

@article{Schmitz2009WeightLI,
  title={Weight lifting in women with breast-cancer-related lymphedema.},
  author={Katherine H Schmitz and Rehana L Ahmed and Andrea B. Troxel and Andrea L. Cheville and Rebecca Smith and Lorita Lewis-Grant and Cathy J. Bryan and Catherine T Williams-Smith and Quincy P Greene},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2009},
  volume={361 7},
  pages={
          664-73
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3125299}
}
Slow progressive weight lifting had no significant effect on limb swelling and resulted in a decreased incidence of exacerbations of lymphedema, reduced symptoms, and increased strength in breast-cancer survivors with stable lyMPhedema.
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