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Protecting lymphedema resources

Watch this report by Paula Dayan-Perez, journalist for CBC Montreal – January 21, 2025.

Starts at 18:32

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Few resources are available to lymphedema sufferers within the healthcare system. Here’s a CBC Montreal report on efforts to maintain the services offered by the Supraregional Lymphedema Centre, located at the MUHC. Also known as the Lymphedema Clinic.

Megan Sewell, who suffers from lymphedema in her arm, recounts the difficulties encountered in obtaining treatment. The LAQ supports her story by explaining the importance and uniqueness of the expertise of the Suprarregional Lymphedema Center.

About the Lymphedema Program at the Supraregional Lymphedema Centre, located at the MUHC

Focusing primarily on cancer-related lymphedema, this program is making advances that benefit all patients in Quebec, regardless of the cause of their lymphedema.

Cancer-related lymphedema is a chronic condition that can occur during cancer treatment, or in the weeks, months or years that follow. Currently, one in seven cancer survivors suffers from lymphedema, 85% of them women. In Quebec, some 75,000 survivors of cancers such as breast, prostate, ovarian, melanoma, sarcoma, head and neck, bladder and colorectal are living with this incurable condition. Lymphedema is associated with functional and psychosocial problems, and increases the risk of infection.

The Supraregional Lymphedema Center at the MUHC is an internationally designated LE&RN Network of Excellence, along with the lymphedema programs at the Mayo Clinic and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Founded in 1994, this unique interdisciplinary program has served over 20,000 lymphedema patients to date.

Comprised of a specialized interdisciplinary team of lymphedema physicians and therapists, the program is recognized provincially, nationally and internationally for its expertise in the following three areas:

Clinical excellence: providing patients with interdisciplinary expertise in the clinical evaluation, diagnosis and management of lymphedema.

Education mission: to educate patients and healthcare professionals in medical and paramedical disciplines, and to contribute to the specialized training of the next generation of clinicians.

Research mission: to act as a scientific leader in the promotion and advancement of best practices in the early identification and management of lymphedema. Supervise university students at all levels of training in lymphedema-related research projects.

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