Breast Implants: Q&A
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How Do Breast Implants over the Muscle Protect Against Cancer?
Why do some surgeons believe this (over the muscle implants) is a valid or better reason for reducing the likelihood of cancer in breasts?
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Do implants prevent cancer?
What?
Implants do NOT prevent cancer. If your surgeon says that they do, be sure he is #1 a doctor, # 2, a plastic surgeon, and finally report him to someone, and get out.
No evidence to even hint that implants prevent cancer.
In fact, new evidence may actually link implants to a cancer in the scar tissue capsule (not breast cancer)! This risk is much lower than that of say winning the lottery or getting hit by a truck.
See FDA link below.
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For mammography, implants are better under the muscle.
Whether implants or over or under the muscle, does not cause, nor reduce, the likelihood of breast cancer. Implants that are under the muscle are better for mammography than implants that are over the muscle.
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Risk of breast cancer with implants
Breast implants, no matter how they are placed, or if they are saline or gel, do not increase the risk for breast cancer. They also do not, in any way, decrease the risk of breast cancer. Placing the implant under the muscle rather than above the muscle does make surveillance studies, such as mammograms, a bit more reliable.
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How Do Breast Implants over the Muscle Protect Against Cancer?
You have received some faulty information from a questionable source. Please verify this with that source. I have NEVER heard of this before!
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Breast implants are not associated with breast cancer
Regardless of whether a breast implant is placed under or over the chest muscle, it does not cause breast cancer. Implants placed under the pectoral muscle (subpectoral) do make it easier to interpret mammograms. Implants placed over the muscle (subglandular) are associated with a higher incidence of capsular contracture (scar tissue formation)- this is not cancerous however.
Discuss this in detail with your plastic surgeon before having breast augmentation.
Best wishes,
Dr.Bruno
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Not true
Surgeons do NOT believe that breast implants over the muscle help reduce the likelihood of cancer. In fact, implants placed below the muscle make it easier to image the breast tissue on mammogram. However, neither location of implants will reduce your risk of cancer.
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Do breast implants protect against breast cancer
We know that as a group, women with breast implants, over or under the muscle, have a lower breast cancer rate than women as a whole. Do the implants protect against breast cancer. The answer is no. Women with implants do indeed get breast cancer and regular self examination and recommended mammograms are very important. Over or under the muscle, with proper examination implants will not delay the diagnosis, nor affect treatment or treatment options. You can visit the American Cancer Society...
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Breast Implants Are Not Related to Cancer Risk
Multiple scientific studies have shown that breast implants do not increase or decrease your chances of getting breast cancer. Your risk of getting breast cancer is more related to genetic, hormonal, and dietary influences. Women with breast implants have been shown to detect a breast cancer at an earlier stage than others and thus are more likely to have a treatable condition. The theory to explain this finding is that women with implants are more likely to...
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Breast Implant Position and Breast Cancer
I would want to know who told you this. Breast implant have not been associated with an increase in breast cancer. Cancer detection with a mammogram may be impaired to some degree in any woman with breast implants. However in this case, implants under the muscle are less likely to obscure the detection of microscopic breast cancer particularly in women with advanced capsular contraction. Dr Harrell
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Breast cancer and implants
Implants do not protect against cancer no matter where they are placed. They do not cause cancer either. I tell my patients that they generally have better detection via mammogram when implants are placed UNDER the muscle because it is common practice to displace the breast tissue away from the muscle when getting the image.
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Breast implants are not associated with breast cancer
We can definitely say based on numerous studies that breast implants do not increase the risk of breast cancer, and so it makes no difference whether they are over or under the muscle. It may however affect breast cancer screening, with implants under the muscle having potentially less intereference with mammograms. Regardless, there does not appear to be a change in the ability to detect early breast cancers with breast implants with properly done mammograms and self exam.
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Implants and Cancer
You have gotten a mixed message regarding the value of breast implants, many values have been attributed to implants such as a study that showed women with implants are more vigilant when doing self exams. One of a patients duties when she has implants is a daily massage of the breasts in order to exercise and stretch the capsule. This factor makes a woman with implants more aware of her normal anatomy. This makes her more away if changes occur such as detection of a new mass. Implants...
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Protection from Breast Implants?
I'm not sure where you heard this information, but it is not true. Breast implants do not protect against breast cancer occurring. There are many good studies that have shown that breast implants do not cause breast cancer and conversely do not protect against breast cancer.
MAMMOGRAMS can successfully be performed with implants in place, but they are more difficult to perform and should be performed by a technician skilled in performing mammograms on women with...
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Breast augmentation, breast cancer, implant location for augmentation of the breasts.
Breast implants do not appear to cause cancer of the breast, whether they are above or below the muscle. . Diagnostic tests such as mammograms and MRI's of the breast tend to be more easily interpreted by the Radiologists reviewing the studies when implants are under the muscle, and for this reason many Plastic Surgeons favor a subpectoral location for implants.
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Breast implants and breast cancer
As you have heard, you must have misunderstood the issue as no breast implant protects against breast cancer. Neither do they promote breast cancer. Breast cancer detection is better when the implants are under the muscle also.
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Breast Implants and Cancer
Thank you for the question.
Breast implants do not “protect against cancer” regardless of the position they are placed in. If anything, breast implants may interfere with the mammographic diagnosis of breast cancer ( more so in the sub glandular than in the sub muscular position). You may want to review the FDA website regarding the extrememly rare association of anaplastic large cell lymphoma with breast implants.
I hope this helps.
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Breast Implants over the Muscle DO NOT Protect Against Cancer
I'm not sure where you got your information but breast implants do not protect against breast cancer. Furthermore, placing breast implants UNDER the muscle makes imaging the breasts with mammograms easier making cancer detection easier with under the muscle breast implants.
Peter A Aldea, MD
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