Textured Breast Implants Cancer
Fda made a safety announcement about a link between textured breast implants and a very rare form of cancer.
Textured breast implants cancer. In a statement the fda. The fda says the textured surface unique to allergan s implants are tied to 481 cases of breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma bia alcl a type of non hodgkin s lymphoma. On march 21 2017 the u s. More women have been diagnosed with a deadly lymphoma caused by textured breast implants according to a report released wednesday from the food and drug administration.
Breast implant safety is a subject of growing international concern and at the center of the controversy is a rare form of cancer that occurs most often in implants with rough surfaces known as textured implants. Food and drug administration fda recently announced that it has decided not to ban textured breast implants that have been linked to a rare cancer that grows in the scar tissue around the breast known as breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma bia alcl. Since then the ante has been upped. Because the cancer is linked to breast implants the fda calls the cancer breast.
In the announcement the fda called the cancer breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma bia alcl.