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I've read about numerous cases of polypropylene mesh reactions resulting in cancer. can years of chronic inflammation and foreign body reaction to polypropylene mesh in the body lead to cancer?
2 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Not typically: This would be a highly unlikely cause of cancer although any chronic wound or scar can result in cancer.
Answered 11/21/2019
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I don't believe it: Go to the refereed medical literature and you'll find a single article from 2000 in an obscure german-language journal about the foreign-body reaction and idly conjecturing cancer promotion; i just ran a search of the nih data-base and there are no actual cases. This sort of thing in connective tissue is well-known to us pathologists and doesn't turn malignant. Stop reading internet junk.
Answered 11/21/2019
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