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A member asked:
Can post surgical inflammation/scarring from breast implants cause cancer later on life?
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Very low risk: People have looked at this intensively. There's a very rare and distinctive malignant lymphoma that occurs in this setting. I wouldn't waste time worrying about it. The implants don't cause breast cancer. If other cancers result from the scar formation, which doesn't make sense biologically, they are too uncommon for a risk to be measurable.
Answered 3/23/2014
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No: Despite decades of research there is no relationship between breast implants and the development of breast cancer.
Answered 6/15/2014
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