Table 1.

Baseline clinical characteristics of patients.

No.	Sex	Age	Pathology type	Stage	Pre/post-operative treatment	Pre-operative edema	Underlying disease
1	F	59	IDC	IIIA	S+CTx/T	Yes	Hypertension
2	F	65	Sarcoma	IIIC	S+CTx/CTx	N	N
3	F	63	IDC	IIIC	S+RT/CTx	N	N
4	F	83	IDC	IV	None	N	Diabetes
5	F	84	IDC	IV	H	N	N
6	F	52	IDC	IIA	S+CTx/CTx	N	N
7	F	89	IDC	IIIB	None	Yes	Coronary heart disease
8	F	89	IDC	IV	None	N	Hypertension
9	F	53	IDC	IIB	CTx/H	N	Hypertension
10	F	61	IDC	IIIC	S+CTx/CTx	Yes	Diabetes
11	M	68	IDC	IIB	S+CTx/CTx	N	N
12	F	78	IDC	IIB	S+CTx/CTx	N	N
13	F	86	IDC	IV	S+CTx/T	N	Local ulcer
14	F	58	IDC	IV	S/RT+CTx	N	N
15	F	63	IDC	IV	RT+CTx/none	N	N

IDC, invasive ductal cancer; S, surgery; RT, radiotherapy; CTx, chemotherapy; H, endocrine therapy; T, targeted therapy; N, none.