TO THE QUESTION OF THE RISK OF POSTMATECTOMY LYMPHEDEMA IN PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER AND ITS CONNECTION WITH CONCOMITANT VASCULAR PATHOLOGY

Investigation resultsof influence of radical mastectomy (RME) combined with lymphatic-venous anastomosis (RME+LVA) to the 5-year survival of patients with breast cancer (BC), to current of BC, and to the risk of development secondary postmastectomy lymphedema (VL), and to its link with symptoms of atherosclerosis, ischemic illness of heart, coronary sclerosis, stenocardia, vascular diseases of the brain, neurocirculatory dystonia and hypertensive disease (HD) are presented. It is shown that RME+LVA effectively reduces risk of SL at patients with BC, not influencing current breast cancer, their 5-year-old survival, and that, probably, risk of VL is linked to the factors which prevent development of HD