Do Breast Implants Cause Cancer?

Will breast implants cause breast cancer? I am planning to go for breast implants. After breast feeding, my breast is flat. However, I am concerned about cancer being a possible side effect

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Breast implants and cancer

There is no known causal link between breast implants and cancer, and this has been repeatedly conveyed in the scientific literature over decades. Rather, the academic literature has shown that women with breast implants actually may pick up cancers at the same time or even earlier, given that they are more in tune with their breast anatomy after having undergone BA and doing implant massage, and that the implants may act as a "platform" for a palpable lestion. Most plastic... more

Breast implants and cancer

This is a question that comes up quite often in consultation. They do not cause cancer. There has never been any data to support this. Some doctors do believe that if there is a risk of breast cancer in the family that the patient may want to opt for saline versus silicone as there have been concerns raised as to the risk of silicone implants making it more difficult to detect mammographic irregularities. But I am not familiar with any scientific data to support that.

Breast implants and cancer

There is no scientific data that shows a link between breast cancer and breast implants. Keep in mind that we frequently use implants in patients who had breast cancer, and these patients are at higher risk for developing breast cancer in the opposite breast. For example, we might reconstruct a mastectomy with an implant and put a small implant in the non-affected breast. Even in these patients at higher risk of developing breast cancer, breast implants are believed to be safe, based on... more

Breast Implants and Cancer

It's been shown and proven over and over to not be the case. Breast Implants do not cause cancer even if the silicone leaks out of the implant. Any case that seems like it could've been the silicone was taken against Dow Corning back in the day and a massive class action suit was involved. Today, we simply move forward and now that the FDA has approved it, we use them regularly. Nobody would be putting in these implants if there were the merest suggestion that this implication is real. It's... more

No identifed link between Breast Cancer and Implants

To date, there are NO studies linking breast cancer to implants. In fact some studies have shown a lower than expected rate of breast cancer in patients with implants. This may be more reflective of selection bias. In oversimplified terms, who gets more weeds a one acre lot or a two acre lot? Women with small breasts tend to have a lower rate of breast cancer and these are the women who seek breast implants. In fact there are some European studies which have shown that the rate of breast... more

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Breast implants and cancer - an Internet hoax

There are multiple studies showing that breast implants do not cause cancer. In fact, the most common way that breast cancer patients are currently being reconstructed is through placement of a submuscular breast implant. Unfortunately, scare sites abound on the Internet and they suggest that these implants cause cancer. Instead of educating women through science, they scare them away from a time-tested procedure which has been shown to be not only effective but, more importantly, safe! more

Breast Implants and Cancer

There is no data what so ever to support the claim that breast implants cause cancer, or any sort. They are the most studied medical device in the history of the FDA, more than heart valves, pacemakers, etc. They are safe and do not cause any systemic problems.

Breast Implants DO NOT cause cancer

Breast implants have been ewxtensively studied. They do not cause cancer. The incidence of cancer in women with implants is the same as those without implants. In those with cancer, the cancer is at the same stage in those with implants as compared to those without.

Breast Implants do not cause breast cancer

Breast implants do not cause breast cancer. Breast implants (saline or silicone) do not cause any medical diseases or illnesses, this has been thoroughly studied and proven. However, breast implants can make the detection of breast cancer via mammogram more difficult because the implants themselves can obscure some of the breast tissue on the x-ray. Approximately 10% of a patient's breast tissue can not be visualized on a mammogram if they have implants in place. However, there are special... more

Breast implants and cancer

Silicone breast implants are the most studied implants. For 15 years, they have been studied and found SAFE AND EFFECTIVE, by the FDA in 2006. You can check implant safety on the FDA site.