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L-W-O Community Website About AQUA The photographs for “Aqua - A MEDICAL MYSTERY” have now been completed with approximately 40 black and white images, covering 28 pages with Lymphoedema captions...

Gaynor chats to Dr Alison Merrick about her role as a clinician working in Lymphoedema. Gaynor chats to Fiona Stevenson who lives with bilateral arm Lymphoedema about lymphoedema and disability/accessibility...

Our members at one time or another have probably discussed just about every diet going. In my writing or on my website until November 2020 last year I have not specifically concentrated on Plant-Based...

    It has taken me a couple of years to work out as a patient advocate (with a non-medical background) how to introduce more information on Lymphatic Health.  Two opportunities arose...

This was evident at the BLS 2021 Conference, which I feel privileged as a patient advocate to have attended for the fourth year running.   James E. Moore Jr., Ph.D. There were many different topics...

"I remember the day of my cancer diagnosis vividly, walking through the corridors of the hospital was like walking through a black narrow tunnel.   I felt claustrophobic and I was scared. My Husband...

  Those of us who live with lymphoedema are cautioned against any invasive procedures to our affected limbs. We are advised that blood pressure readings, blood tests, injections, IVS or anything...

    Gaynor Leech, Founder and Patient Advocate of LWO Community   For this year’s #LAW2022 and #WLD2022 we are very pleased that Sue Hansard have shared their knowledge on the management...

I can remember a time, not so long ago when a “Call to Action” to reach patients, the public, clinicians, politicians, policy makers and health care providers would have fallen on deaf ears...

  This is being written from a patient perspective and is just one of the many questions that come up regularly within the L-W-O Community support group. The question comes from a Breast Cancer Related...