# OnCo record lymphoedema-after-breast-cancer (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/lymphoedema-after-breast-cancer/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "lymphoedema-after-breast-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "breast cancer-related lymphoedema"@en, "arm swelling after breast surgery"@en, "BCRL"@en ;
  schema:description "Swelling of the arm, hand, breast or chest wall caused by lymph fluid that can no longer drain, after the lymph nodes under the arm have been removed or irradiated. It can start months or years later, it is controlled rather than cured, and the earlier it is treated the better it goes."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/lymphoedema-after-breast-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/treatment/lymphoedema>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101/chapter/Recommendations>, <https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lymphoedema/treatment/>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70076-7>, <https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/impacts-of-cancer/lymphoedema>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/breast-cancer/living-with/lymphoedema-after-treatment> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/lymphoedema-decongestive-therapy/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/lymphadenectomy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/sentinel-lymph-node-biopsy/> .