Factor to Consider # 1 : Cancer

There had always been controversies related to breast implants and breast cancer. According to a Dennis Deapen and some his colleagues, breast implants do not cause cancer, neither interfere with cancer’s detection during mammography. In order to corroborate this hyphotesis, the scientists monitored cancer incident in 3182 women who had breast implant. Previous to that, they estimated the cumulative survival rates by using both the product limit method, as well as Greenwood’s formula for the standard error. As a result, 37 women were diagnosed with breast cancer, and six of them died within a 2 to 10 year interval—minding that the deaths in this study were not related to a later cancer diagnosis (http://gateway.ut.ovid.com/gwl/ovidweb.cgi ).

Conflicting with this result, however, is the study conducted by Dr. Le Gem and others. They referred study relied on the participation of 4968 women younger than 65 years with breast implants and/or breast cancer. These patients were subjected to survival analyses and at the end of the experiment, 28% of all patients who did not have complete follow-up died, and about 2/3 of these deaths were caused by breast cancer (http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/7/2/R184 ). Moreover, there is also the Journal of Women’s Health study that reported 66 cases that involved interference with mammography by breast implants.

Both studies did prove that breast implants DO NOT cause cancer; however, whether or not they interfere with its early detention remains controversial. Carefully analyze this before putting yourself through a knife.