Information for healthcare professionals
The LYMPH-Trial
Surgical versus Conservative Complex Physical Decongestion Therapy for Chronic Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Pragmatic, Randomized, Multicenter Superiority Trial
(SNCTP000005537 | NCT05890677 | BASEC2023-00733)
Detailed information on the trial can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov and
on the Swiss National Clinical Trials Portal (SNCTP)
Publications
The LYMPH Trial - Comparing Microsurgical with Conservative Treatment of Chronic Breast Cancer Associated Lymphedema: Study Protocol of a Pragmatic Randomized International Multicentre Superiority Trial
Elisabeth A Kappos, Yvonne Haas, Alexandra Schulz, Florian Peters, Shakuntala Savanthrapadian, Julia Stoffel, Maria Katapodi, Rosine Mucklow, Benedict Kaiser, Alexander Haumer, Stephanie Etter, Marco Cattaneo, Daniel Staub, Karin Ribi, Jane Shaw, Tristan M Handschin, Steffen Eisenhardt, Giuseppe Visconti, Gianluca Franceschini, Lorenzo Scardina, Benedetto Longo, Marcus Vetter, Khalil Zaman, Jan A Plock, Mario Scaglioni, Eduardo G González, Sergio D Quildrian, Gunther Felmerer, Babak J Mehrara, Jaume Masià, Gemma Pons, Daniel F Kalbermatten, Justin M Sacks, Martin Halle, Maximillian V Muntean, Erin M Taylor, Maria Mani, Florian J Jung, Pietro G di Summa, Efterpi Demiri, Dimitris Dionyssiou, Anne K Groth, Norbert Heine, Joshua Vorstenborsch, Kathryn V Isaac, Shan S Qiu, Patricia E Engels, Axelle Serre, Anna-Lena Eberhardt, Sonja Ebner, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Yvette Stoel, Cornelia Leo, Raymund E Horch, Phillip Blondeel, Björn Behr, Ulrich Kneser, Lukas Prantl, Daniel T Boll, Cristina Granziera, Lars G Hemkens, Nicole Lindenblatt, Martin Haug, Dirk J Schaefer, Christoph Hirche, Andrea L Pusic, Katrin Seidenstücker, Yves Harder, Walter P Weber
medRxiv 2024.02.13.24302744; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.13.24302744
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed
Improving quality of life after breast cancer: a comparison of two microsurgical treatment options for breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL)
Katrin Seidenstuecker, Sonia Fertsch, Alina A. Ghazaleh, Adriano Fabi, Julia Stoffel, Julia Bukowiecki, Andreas Wolter, Soheila Aghlmandi, Anshoo Nadella, Florian S. Halbeisen, Christoph Andree, Martin D. Haug, Dirk J. Schaefer, Tristan M. Handschin, Elisabeth A. Kappos
Clinical and Experimental Medicine. 2024 Apr 23;24(1):82. doi: 10.1007/s10238-024-01344-w.
PMID: 38653874; PMCID: PMC11039536.