Breast implants linked to cancer

Cancer which forms around the implant is typically slow-growing. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Women with breast implants are at risk of getting cancer, a new study has shown. More women with implants are increasingly being diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and doctors may be missing the signs, according to a research published in Jama Oncology, a medical journal.

Daphne de Jong, a pathologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and one of the authors told the Business Daily in an e-mail interview that textured implants or those with rough surfaces pose a higher cancer risk compared to smooth ones.

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