Table 2 Time course of breast edema in scientific literature
From: Breast edema, from diagnosis to treatment: state of the art
Reference | Follow-up | Breast edema prevalence |
|---|---|---|
Verbelen (own data, not published) | Prior to RT | 52.5% |
After termination of RT | 63.8% | |
3 months after RT | 55.3% | |
6 months after RT | 57.1% | |
12 months after RT | 47.5% | |
Adriaenssens 2012 [5] | 0–3 months postoperative | 93.3% |
3–6 months postoperative | 73.3% | |
6–12 months postoperative | 82.4% | |
12–24 months postoperative | 80.6% | |
24–60 months postoperative | 65.4% | |
Berrang 2011 [29] | Prior to RT | 32% |
1 year after RT | 16% | |
3 years after RT | 6% | |
Vicini 2007 [15] | > 6 months after RT | 32% |
> 24 months after RT | 22% | |
> 36 months after RT | 0% | |
Young-Afat 2019 [38] | Baseline: prior to RT | 12.0% |
3 months after baseline | 7.1% | |
6 months after baseline | 12.4% | |
12 months after baseline | 8.2% | |
18 months after baseline | 5.5% | |
Olivotto 1996 [23] | Prior to RT | 26.6% |
3 year after RT | 4.3% | |
5 years after RT | 2.6% | |
Johansson 2015 [37] | Prior to RT | 29% |
2 weeks after RT | 39% | |
3 months after RT | 63% | |
6 months after RT | 63% | |
12 months after RT | 39% | |
24 months after RT | 28% | |
Lam 2020 [39] (meta-analysis) | 0–4 weeks after RT | 26.2–47.1% |
6 months – 10 years after RT | 7.2–9.9% |