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Breast implants and observed breast cancer rates. Could they actually be protective?
Posted on July 12, 2008
* Image at right spoofed from The OnionOne of the most serious claims in the class action lawsuits against Dow Corning Corp. during the silicone crisis involving breast implants in the late 1980's was that silicone breast implants caused breast cancer and/or delays in diagnosis of breast cancer. Despite there being no evidence for it actually happening, these were reasonable questions to ask. Over the last 20 years, we've been flooded with data that has been reassuring on these issues.Implants do make conventional mammograms harder to interpret by their shadow , but the increased ease of d...
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