For breast cancer survivor Cynthia Bruner, wearing a compression sleeve is part of daily life. The sleeve, which extends from her hand to her shoulder, helps treat lymphedema a condition she developed after her cancer treatment.

"I have a sleeve and I have a glove and the sleeve goes all the way to my shoulder. All the time. Bruner said.

Bruner was diagnosed with multiple tumors during her breast cancer journey.

"I was diagnosed with several tumors. I had two in my breast. I had several on my lymph nodes," Bruner said.

"It's very common for breast cancer to move underarm. So that's what happened to me. They removed 16 of them and eight had tumors," she said.

Lymph node surgery and radiation therapy can increase patients' risk of developing lymphedema. The disease causes patients to ca

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