to our knowledge, there are no other studies that systematically investigate breast lymphoedema therapy. In a study of the incidence of breast and arm lymphoedema, Goffman et al(3) merely mentioned that good results were achieved with manual lymphatic drainage in 21 of 23 patients with breast lymphoedema. More data are available on physical therapy in patients with lymphoedema of the arm after breast cancer treatment (7, 8, 20). However, these results are not directly applicable to the treatment of breast lymphoedema because compression bandaging is not possible for this condition.