Clinical Experience with Compression Taping to Treat Seroma After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Medical Device Clinical Study.

Objective: To evaluate the safety of compressive taping in patients with seroma secondary to breast cancer surgery.

Methods: This study was a nonrandomized clinical study of medical devices applied to women indicated for seroma aspiration puncture after breast cancer surgery in a public reference hospital in Brazil. The intervention consisted of applying compressive taping over the seroma fluctuation area and maintained for 5 days.

Shoulder amplitude movement does not influence postoperative wound complications after breast cancer surgery: a randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: The goal of this study is to evaluate the influence of shoulder exercises with restricted amplitude movement (RAM) or free amplitude movement (FAM) performed from the first postoperative day (1st POD) on the incidence of surgical wound complications (SWC) in breast cancer.

Methods: This study comprises a randomized clinical trial with an intention-to-treat analysis including 465 women aged 18 to 79, who underwent curative surgery for breast cancer. Participants were submitted to perform free amplitude movement (FAM) or restricted amplitude movement (RAM) shoulder exercises, until the 30th postoperative day.