Risk Factors of Lymph Edema in Breast Cancer Patients

Table 4

Subjective comparison of feeling edema and lymphedema symptoms.

Variable	Frequency of; subjective edema (%)		Kappa; co-efficient	P value
	No	Yes
Presence of lymphedema			0.33	<0.001
Noncase	225 (78.4)	62 (21.6)
Case	55 (44.7)	68 (55.3)
Symptoms (pain, heaviness, paresthesia)			0.15	0.002
No	185 (74)	65 (26)
Yes	95 (59.4)	65 (40.6)