Breast implants can cause significant inflammation, potentially leading to cancer spread and heart issues, as experienced by the author. The medical community often lacks awareness of breast ...
Stories like Barnhart’s reveal two critical barriers: awareness and access. Too often, women are not told about prosthetic ...
Jessie J is setting the record straight as to whether she received “big implants” following her mastectomy to treat her surprise breast cancer diagnosis. “Like, this isn’t cosmetic surgery, it’s a ...
Aside from the established risk of anaplastic large-cell lymphomas (ALCLs), breast implants after mastectomy were also associated with an increased risk of other non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), ...
Women with breast cancer who were also carriers of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and received textured breast implants as part of their reconstructive surgery after mastectomy were 16 times more likely ...
December 3, 2024 — The percentage of patients opting for breast reconstruction after mastectomy has leveled off in recent years, reports a study in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive ...
December 20, 2024 — For women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy, older age is associated with small but significant increases in certain complications, reports a study in the January ...
When Lisa Taft Sylvester learned she had the BRCA2 gene in 2021 — and that her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer could be as high as 80 percent — getting a preventative double mastectomy was a ...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that textured breast implants predispose women who undergo breast reconstruction to breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Now, an analysis of new ...
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