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. 2014 Nov 17;47(3):416–423. doi: 10.4143/crt.2014.079

Table 4.

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

a)

Log-rank test; p-values were determined vs. 0 risk factors.