Breast implants may harm breast cancer survival chances, study finds
Women with cosmetic breast implants who develop breast cancer may have a greater chance of dying of the disease than those without, according to a study.
During the PIP implant scare, when implants made by a French company were found to have been filled with industrial-grade silicone, there were fears of an impact on women's health, but any link to cancer was eventually ruled out.
The new research does not suggest that implants themselves can cause cancer, but that cancers in women who have them may not be spotted at an early stage, leading to the cancer spreading and possibly poorer survival chances.
The findings, published online by the British Medical Journal, should be interpreted with caution, say the Canadian authors. Their systematic review combined the results of a number of different studies to come to more robust conclusions but, they say, some of the pieces of research did not make allowances for other possible explanations.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/01/breast-implants-cancer-study
Hmm. I wonder how many women celebrities with implants then turn around and go on breast cancer awareness campaigns?
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