Breast Cancer Research Team

The Breast Cancer Research Group is a multi-disciplinary group of well established researchers from backgrounds including physiotherapy, oncology, breast surgery, applied physiology and physiology, public health and psychology.

The focus of the Group is to identify and modify the painful, long-term effects of breast cancer treatment to improve overall quality of life. This is most commonly ongoing shoulder and arm problems such as lymphoedema (arm swelling caused by fluid build-up due to the removal of lymph nodes either by surgery or radiotherapy), shoulder stiffness, weakness, pain and numbness.