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Five-year rate of breast cancer.related lymphedema according to the number of risk factors
| No. of risk factors | Risk factor |
No. | Five-year lymphedema rate (%) | p-valuea) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (yr) | N-ALN | ||||
| 0 | < 50 | ≤ 10 | 71 | 31 | - |
| 1 | ≥ 50 | ≤ 10 | 37 | 35 | 0.69 |
| 1 | < 50 | > 10 | 143 | 41 | 0.24 |
| 2 | ≥ 50 | > 10 | 62 | 61 | 0.001 |
N-ALN, number of dissected axillary lymph nodes
Log-rank test; p-values were determined vs. 0 risk factors.
